And the LORD said unto Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan answered the LORD, and said, "I have gone about the land and walked through it."

And the LORD said unto Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan answered and said, "I have gone about the land, and walked through it."

"If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee.

Am I able to help my self? Is not my strength gone from me,

How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

and then shall I answer him without any fear. For as long as I am in such fearfulness, I can make no answer: And why?

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

Thou reprovest with words, that are worth nothing; and speakest the things which can do no good!

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me.

He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night.

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him.

"Well, thou wilt keep the old way, that all wicked men have gone:

"For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him;

If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him.

Thus can I not get out of darkness, the cloud hath so covered my face.

They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

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

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death.

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

If I have gone amiss, inform me: if I have done wrong, I will leave off.

He can spread out the clouds - a covering of his tabernacle -

when God sendeth out his voice: great things doth he, which we can not comprehend.

It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.

He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come.

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

Behold, he drinketh up whole rivers and feareth not: he thinketh that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

One is so joined to another, that no air can come in:

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.