But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

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

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, but save his life.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones 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.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn.

who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures?

Shall one try a word with you, you who are weary? But who can hold back with words?

But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; silence; then I heard a voice,

Is not their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, but not with wisdom.

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my plea,

But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Oh that my grief were but weighed, and my ruin laid in the balances together!

To him who is afflicted, pity is due from his friend, but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,

And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.

Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.

who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

But who will grant that God would speak, and open His lips against you,

if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?

But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;

But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark it.

But his flesh is pained within him; and his soul mourns over him.

He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

because he has covered his face with fat; he has put fat on his loins.

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our descent together is in the dust.

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

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me.

An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down with him in the dust.

He swallows riches, but vomits it; God shall cast them out of his belly.

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger;

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honored man lived in it.

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.

Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot see Him;

on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him. He turns to the right, but I do not see Him.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? Yea, what His soul desires, He does it.

They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.

But Job answered and said,

Hell is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.

Lo, these are the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?

he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.

But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.

or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it,

But a spirit is in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty.

For God speaks once, yea, twice, but not one takes notice.

In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed;

He keeps back his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

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

Yea, his soul draws near to the Pit, and his life to the dealers of death.

then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; for I have found a ransom.

He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

to bring back his soul from the Pit, to be lighted with the light of the living.

But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

He will not keep alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted.

He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.

But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold;

If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength.

Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?

And now men cannot look upon the light; it is in the clouds; but the wind passes and clears them.

and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Once I have spoken; but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will go no further.

Can you put a reed rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw with a thorn?

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.

The sword overtakes him, but will not hold firm. The spear, the dart, and the javelin also.

He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.