But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"

But Satan answered the Lord, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"

But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

"But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.

if iniquity is in your hand -- put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

"But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?

But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

"But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

But it was he who filled their houses with good things -- yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

"But wisdom -- where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

"But wisdom -- where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow!

"If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security!'

But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler --

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: "I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

"But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

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

For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

"Has anyone said to God, 'I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.

But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'

But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,