Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

the one who is giving rain on [the] {surface of} [the] earth and is sending water on [the] {surface of} [the] fields,

Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

“The caravans of Tema looked [for water],
The caravans of Sheba waited for them [in vain].

“They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water];
They came there and were ashamed.

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

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And a flood of water covers you.

which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,

"He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.

Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

[He] ties up [the] water in its clouds, and [the] cloud is not torn open beneath it.

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen.

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

“Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom,
Or pour out the water jars of the heavens,

He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

"Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.