So the Lord said to Satan, "All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!" So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

So the Lord said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life."

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

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!'

Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

"If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

Now in this, you are not right -- I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

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

Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

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

Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.'

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has."