Shall I continue to wait, since they're no longer talking? After all, they're only standing there; they're no longer responding.

"But now it's your turn, and you're the one who is worn out! Now it's striking you, and you're dismayed!

Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?

Can one say to a king, "You're vile!' or to nobles, "You're wicked!'?

And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, 'Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

“Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you [by searching] discover the limits of the Almighty [ascend to His heights, extend to His widths, and comprehend His infinite perfection]?

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.

Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?

"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.

if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'

You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?"

"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!

You'll be secure, because there is hope; you'll see that you're at rest and safe.

You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me;

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'

Barachel's son Elihu from Buz responded and said: "I'm younger than you are. Because you're older, I was terrified to tell you what I know.

"If they're bound in chains, caught in ropes of affliction,

Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

"For when they're humbled, you may respond; "It's their pride!' but he delivers the humble.

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

Far be it from me to admit that you're right! I intend to maintain my integrity even if it kills me!

"Will your wealth sustain you when you're in distress, despite your most powerful efforts?

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,

Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?

Thou shalt come in old age to thy grave, as the ascending of a heap of sheaves in its time.