Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?

whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain?

A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.

Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?

How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,

"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."

So hard is she to her young ones, as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vain without any fear.