Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, and how that he is an innocent and virtuous man: such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land?"

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

“Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves,
So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“Teach me, and I will be silent;
And show me how I have erred.

“How painful are honest words!
But what does your argument prove?

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

“How long will you say these things,
And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?

“It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how,
When He overturns them in His anger;

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!

He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him?

How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

“How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.

“How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

“Is not God in the height of heaven?
Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

I would learn how He would answer me;
and understand what He would say to me.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!

“What a help you are to the weak!
How you have saved the arm without strength!

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

How cometh a man then by wisdom? Where is the place that men find understanding?

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

The Topaz that cometh out of Ethiopia may in no wise be likened unto her: yea, no manner of apparel how pleasant and fair soever it be.

God understands how to get there; he knows where they live.

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

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

A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, can I focus my attention on a virgin?

For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high?

what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him?

It is not only the old who are wise
or the elderly who understand how to judge.

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned];
If I have done wrong (injustice, unrighteousness),
I will not do it again’?

Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

Look unto the heaven, and behold it: consider the clouds, how they are higher than thou.

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

“How much less when you say you do not behold Him,
The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

God tells them what they have done
and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

"O consider how great and excellent his works be, whom all men love and praise:

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,

Knowest thou, when thou wast born, how old thou shouldest be?

How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?

How their young ones grow up and wax great through good feeding?

"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.

lo, how strong he is in his loins, and what power he hath in the navel of his body.