Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.