The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

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

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

"Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of Shaddai.

Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

Behold, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.

"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Do not let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

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

"Only do not do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

withdraw your hand far from me; and do not let your terror make me afraid.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

But now you number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

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

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

Do you not know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

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

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Do you not know their evidences,

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

"Why aren't times made known by Shaddai? Why do not those who know him see his days?

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.

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

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.