Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

And a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up --

“It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance;
A form was before my eyes;
There was silence, then I heard a voice:

‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

“But as for me, I would seek God,
And I would place my cause before God;

And now be content, look upon me; and before your face if I shall lie;

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

"Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

“While it is still green and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant.

“He thrives before the sun,
And his shoots spread out over his garden.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?

Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

He translateth the mountains, before they be aware, and overthroweth them in his wrath.

See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do bow before him.

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.

So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,

Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty
and argue my case before God.

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes.

“It will be accomplished before his time,
And his palm branch will not be green.

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.

For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.

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“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];
Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me?

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

“He is torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of terrors.

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.

So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.

Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

Who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,

I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

Behold, I shall go before, and he is not; and behind, I shall not understand for him.

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

“Naked is Sheol before Him,
And Abaddon has no covering.

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness;

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,
and days of suffering have seized me.

When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.

My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door.

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before LORD, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

He won't examine mankind further, that they would go before God to judgment.

“He breaks mighty men without inquiry,
And sets others in their place.

The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

But if they will not obey, they shall go through the sword, and perish before they be aware.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!