“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan told the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Then his wife told him, "Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!"

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,
like infants who never see daylight?

Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.

If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?

if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house;

Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

Look away from him and be shall cease, till he shall delight as an hireling in his day.

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

They told God, "Get away from us!' and "What will the Almighty do to them?'

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'

I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince.

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.
That man will see His face with a shout of joy,
and God will restore his righteousness to him.

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

They that were in the stead of Seers, dealt like ungodly men.

"Has anyone ever really told God, "I've endured, and I won't act corruptly anymore.

“His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence;
The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth?

Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,

The LORD answered Job from the wind storm and told him:

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.