Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

So 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 grief was very great.

For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.