And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped;

And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.

For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,

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

A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet: