who wait for death, but it does not come,
and search for it more than for hidden treasure,

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!

Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?

My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;
they come to an end without hope.

so man lies down never to rise again.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.

The eye that saw him will see him no more,
and his household will no longer see him.

His body is well fed,
and his bones are full of marrow.

I have not departed from the commands of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth
more than my daily food.

He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,
and He has many more things like these in mind.

The womb forgets them;
worms feed on them;
they are remembered no more.
So injustice is broken like a tree.

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;
when he opens his eyes, it is gone.

who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”

Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you,
for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.

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