There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.

Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.

That he may withdraw man from his work, and hide pride from man.

Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off.

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.

to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.