In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?

Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

"Even today my complaint [is] bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.

"The spirits of the dead tremble below [the] waters and their inhabitants.

After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down [like dew] upon them.

I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.

Did not he [who] made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

But he did not direct [his] words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?

From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered [the] frost of heaven?

because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.

And its young ones lick blood greedily, and where [the] dead carcasses [are], there they [are]."

'Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me}, but I did not know.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.