But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom. For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

"Surely I would speak to Shaddai. I desire to reason with God.

Oh that you would be completely silent. Then you would be wise.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me.

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor.

Do you not know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion.

For I do not know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

So Job died, being old and full of days.