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."

But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

Let the stars of that night be dim through darkness of it. Let it look for light, but let it see none, neither the raising up of the fair morning:

like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:

For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

Wherefore look not only upon me, but upon yourselves: whether I lie, or no.

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

If he came by me, I might not look upon him: if he went his way, I should not perceive it.

Hast thou fleshly eyes then, or doest thou look as a man looketh?

Hast thou not turned me, as it were milk: and turned me to cruddes like cheese?

A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.

"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!

and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

Look what ye know, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior unto you.

Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

Go from him, that he may rest until his day come: which he looketh for, like as a hireling doth.

yet when the stock getteth the scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth bows, like as when it was first planted.

the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner.

Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,

How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.

He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant.

Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.

What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?

yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones.

Then, look what thou takest in hand: he shall make it to prosper with thee, and the light shall shine in thy ways.

I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.

The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment,

"But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

And why? His eyes look upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

They that were in the stead of Seers, dealt like ungodly men.

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

Gird up thy loins like a man, for I will question thee, see thou give me a direct answer.

Their tokens and weapons hast thou turned like clay, and set them up again as the changing of a garment.

that he letteth himself be driven forth like a grasshopper, whereas the stout neighing that he maketh, is fearful?

From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes.

Gird up thy loins like a man, and tell me the things that I will ask thee.

Is thine arm then like the arm of God? Maketh thy voice such a sound as his doth?

look well, that thou makest all such as be stubburn, to obey; tread all the ungodly under thy feet,

He spreadeth out his tail like a Cedar tree, all his sinews are stiff.

His shins are like pipes of brass, his ridge bones are like staves of iron.

His sneezing is like a glistering fire, and his eyes like the morning shine.

out of his nostrils there goeth smoke, like as out of a hot seething pot.

He treadeth the gold in the mire like the sharp potsherds.

He maketh the deep to seethe and boil like a pot, and stirreth the sea together like an ointment.

Upon earth is there no power like unto his, for he is so made that he feareth not.

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."