Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

so that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd.

They sat them down by him also upon the ground seven days and seven nights. Neither was there any of them that spake one word unto him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

"It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground;

"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!

Nevertheless, grant me two things, and then will I not hide myself from thee.

For though a root be waxen old and dead in the ground,

His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way.

God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.

where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal.

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.

They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

Camest thou ever into the ground of the sea: or hast thou walked in the low corners of the deep?

that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground:

For she leaveth her eggs upon the ground, and heateth them in the dust.

He breaketh the ground with the hooves of his feet cheerfully in his strength, and runneth to meet the harness men.

yet rusheth he in fearlessly, and beateth upon the ground. He feareth not the noise of the trumpets,