Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.

And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, but save his life.

And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Behold, He puts no trust in His servants, and His angels He charges with folly!

How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

to set on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be lifted up to safety;

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.

But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

For He makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and His hands make whole.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.

In famine He shall redeem you from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

To him who is afflicted, pity is due from his friend, but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

How long will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a strong wind?

If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has cast them away for their transgression,

if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.

He is moist before the sun, and his branches shoot forth in his garden.

His roots are wrapped around the heap, and he sees the place of stones.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen you.

Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, nor will He help the evildoers,

until He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?

If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

He who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger;

He who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble;

Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.

Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my arguments with Him?

If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;

He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;

If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time?

If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.

It is One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.

If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges; if it is not He, then who is it?

For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment;

If He passes through and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can turn Him back?

For He knows vain men; and when He sees wickedness, will He not search it?

I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;

With Him is wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding.

Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.

Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

He leads wise men away stripped, and makes the judges fools.

He cuts away the bonds of kings, and binds their loins with a girdle.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

He pours scorn on princes, and unties the belt of the mighty.

He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings the shadow of death to light.

He gives greatness to the nations, and destroys them. He spreads out the nations, and leads them away.

He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.

They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunkard.

Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?

He will surely blame you, if you secretly lift up persons.

Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

Who is he that will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known my transgressions and my sin.

And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?

If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.

You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark it.

Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?

What is man, that he should be clean? And what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous?

Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

because he stretches out his hand against God, and sets himself against the Almighty.

He runs at him, with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,

because he has covered his face with fat; he has put fat on his loins.

And he lives in cut off cities, in houses where none are living, which are ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth.

He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and at the breath of his mouth he shall turn away.

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

He shall shake off its unripe grape, as the vine; and shall cast off his flower like the olive.

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.

He breaks me with break on break; He runs on me like a giant.