"Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, "It's a boy!'

"I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived.

It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"

Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."

Thick clouds cover him so he can't see as he walks back and forth at heaven's horizon.

"If there's a messenger appointed to mediate for Job one out of a thousand to represent the man's integrity on his behalf,

His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."

What you see as a raging river doesn't alarm him; he is confident when the Jordan overflows.