Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.

For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me.

But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Can that which has no taste be eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the white of an egg?

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh.

The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.

If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has cast them away for their transgression,

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit.

who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this?

With Him is wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding.

Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

because he has covered his face with fat; he has put fat on his loins.

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;

God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.

Surely these are the dwellings of the perverse, and this the place that has not known God.

know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me.

He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.

He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me.

All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?

Truly our foe is not cut down, and fire has eaten their wealth.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away;

How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm that has no strength?

Hell is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.

He has described a circle on the surface of the waters to the boundary of light with darkness.

As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

Its stones are the place of sapphires; and it has dust of gold.

There is a path which no bird knows, nor has the vulture's eye caught sight of it;

the sons of pride have not walked on it, the lion has not passed by.

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

And my lyre has turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of weeping.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,

If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand;

if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

that you do not say, We have found out wisdom. God has pushed him down, not man.

And he has not directed his words against me; and I will not answer him with your words.

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth,

He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right;

For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God.

Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

And now, because His anger has not visited, and He does not recognize stupidity,

Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?

every man has seen it; man may see it afar off.

Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched the line on it?

Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps;

Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,

because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

Who has gone before Me that I should repay? All that is the heavens is Mine.

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.

And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.