While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

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

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

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

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."

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

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

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, 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. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch 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.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

For you have taken pledges from your 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 like gold.

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

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

There are those 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. Yes, 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, Shaddai, who has made my soul bitter.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

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

For I do not know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

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

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

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Take heed, do not regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

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

that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

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

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."