But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

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

The wicked man labors in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless one.

Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased?

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand;

if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife in his bones;

Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.