When the days of their feasting were over, Job would send [for them] and consecrate them, rising early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job did this at all [such] times.

For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

“For He recognizes and knows false and worthless men,
And He sees wickedness, will He not consider it?

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Wilt thou put a rope in his nose? and wilt thou hollow out his jaw with a thorn?