But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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

Which are black by reason of the ice, and in which the snow is hid:

The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

He grows green in the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

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

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean;

That you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.

For now you number my steps: do not watch over my sin.

I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?

There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the falcon's eye has not seen:

I went mourning but not in the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in brightness;

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath aroused, because he justified himself rather than God.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

For I know not how to give flattery; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen now stick out.

For he adds rebellion unto his sin, he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him?

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

For he says to the snow, Be on the earth; likewise to the gentle rain, and to the heavy rain of his strength.

Have the gates of death been revealed unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Have you entered into the treasury of the snow? or have you seen the treasury of the hail,