In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

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

"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

"Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

"The dead tremble -- those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans --

whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is."

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.