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 he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

So Yahweh said to Satan, "{All right}, he [is] in your {power}. Only spare his life."

“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?
Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?

‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He?
Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

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

Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

“Yes, I know it is true.
But how can a mortal man be right before God?

If He passes by me, I wouldn’t see Him;
if He goes right by, I wouldn’t recognize Him.

How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

For though I were righteous, I could not answer.
I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge.

“Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty;
Though I am blameless, He would denounce me as guilty.

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

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

Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

Lo! he may slay me, yet , for him, will I wait, - Nevertheless, my ways - unto his face, will I show to be right:

Now then, I have prepared my case;
I know that I am right.

“For You write bitter things against me [in Your indictment]
And make me inherit and suffer for the iniquities of my youth.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network!

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

“Is it any pleasure or joy to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Or is it of benefit to Him that you make your ways perfect?

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;
So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

“Far be it from me that I should admit you are right [in your accusations against me];
Until I die, I will not remove my integrity from me.

“I hold fast my uprightness and my right standing with God and I will not let them go;
My heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

Man putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom's price [is] more than red corals.

I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,

Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

“For if my land has cried out against me,
And its furrows weep together;

So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes [and could not be persuaded otherwise by them].

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

"Look! I have waited to hear your speech, so I listened to your insights while you searched for the right words to say.

“Do not say,
‘We have found wisdom;
God will rout him, not man.’

Behold, I will answer thee in this, thou art not right; for +God is greater than man.

For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious to search whether it be right.

If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;

“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,
So that he looks at His face with joy;
For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

“He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous [those in right standing with Him];
But with kings upon the throne
He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

And thou didst fill up the judgment of the unjust one; judgment and right shall hold together.

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to [nor disregard] justice and abundant righteousness.

Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.