But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

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 didn't sin with his lips.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

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

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

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

He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

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

(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.