The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

“Behold, my belly is like unvented wine,
Like new wineskins it is about to burst.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him,
And He covers the depths of the sea.

“Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds,
The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

“Who prepares for the raven its nourishment
When its young cry to God
And wander about without food?

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.