And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "From where have you come?" And Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.

To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty.

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:

Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.

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

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

"I [am] blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life.

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

The carefree are thinking, "I have contempt for misfortune,' Those who are about to stumble deserve it.

“He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a loincloth.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Why do you speak falsely on God's behalf and speak deceitfully about him?

And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --

He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.

He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

“The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme [in which he trusted] will bring his downfall.

For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.

"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

When I think about it, I am terrified
and my body trembles in horror.

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

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

That's why I'm terrified at his presence! When I think about it, I'm afraid of him.

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

"I will teach you about God's hand; I will not conceal that [which is] with Shaddai.

Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,

“This [which I am about to explain] is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the inheritance which tyrants and oppressors receive from the Almighty:

Terrors shall hedge him about as waters, the night a tempest stole him away.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

Abaddon and death said, "We did hear a rumor about it.'

then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it.

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

“The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,
And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

“You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it];
And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

if I've observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes or if I have no clothing to give to the poor,

“Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder,
And bind the scroll around my head like a crown.

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
I also will give you my opinion [about Job’s situation] and tell you plainly what I think.’

My heart is like unvented wine;
it is about to burst like new wineskins.

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

"You aren't right about this; My response is that God is greater than human beings.

Would I lie about my case?
My wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”

He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

Remember that you should praise His work,
which people have sung about.

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

His thundering tells about him; [the] livestock also [tell] {concerning what rises}.

"About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

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

but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.

Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?