While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little

And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search [about thee], and shall take thy rest in safety.

He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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

Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.

For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.

For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.

And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,

But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,

Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?

Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your fol