“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 my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

If only I had someone to hear my case!
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.

when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

Can you bring out the constellations in their season
and lead the Bear and her cubs?

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

She abandons her eggs on the ground
and lets them be warmed in the sand.

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

When she proudly spreads her wings,
she laughs at the horse and its rider.