Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

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

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

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door --

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?