He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.

Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

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

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.