So Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil."

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water

Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

And you shall know that your offspring [are] many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.

"Look, we have searched this out--it [is] true; hear it and know [it] {yourself}."

{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.

Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

"Look, God will not reject [the] blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.

If {it is a matter of} strength, look, [he is] mighty. But if {it is a matter of} justice, who can summon me?

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

"For [he is] not a mortal like me [that] I can answer him, [that] {we can come to trial together}.

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

"{And your life will be brighter than noon}; [its] darkness will be like the morning.

{I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}?

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

Please look, I have prepared [my] case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.

at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and [the] heavens are not clean in his eyes.

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.

"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;

"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.

He breached me {breach upon breach}; he rushes at me like a warrior.

So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

The products of his house will be carried away [like] gushing waters on the day of his wrath.

They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.

Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

For he will carry out {what he appoints for me}, and many [things] like these [are] with him

"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"Let my enemy be like [the] wicked and my opponent like [the] unrighteous,

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.

"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] days.

After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down [like dew] upon them.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you [merely] look at me.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

I would {surely} carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me [like] a crown.

I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

"Look, I waited for your words; I listened for your insight, until you searched out {what to say}.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you.

"Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

"Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

Look, God does all these [things] twice, three times with a person

What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

"Look at [the] heavens, and see; and observe [the] clouds [that] are higher than you.

Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans.

Look, God [is] mighty but does not despise [anyone]; [he is] mighty [and] {good in understanding}.

"Look, God is exalted in his power; who [is] a teacher like him?