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.