The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water.

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

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

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me.

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.