There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m

And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.

Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?

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

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

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

For he knows FALSE men. He also sees iniquity. Will he not then consider it?

But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.

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.

With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!

Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.

But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

Know thou this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

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.

Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.

The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,

[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his anger was kindled.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

Behold, I will answer thee. In this thou are not just, for God is greater than man.

For God speaks once, yea twice, [though man] does not regard it.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction