Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.