But Satan answered the Lord, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

So the Lord said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life."

"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

"The dead tremble -- those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter --

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!'

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.