The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, that Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against Shaddai;

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Will he delight himself in Shaddai, and call on God at all times?

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.