Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

“I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“But come again all of you now,
For I do not find a wise man among you.

“If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

“It is God who has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;
And how faint a word we hear of Him!
But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

“But where can wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?

“Man does not know its value,
Nor is it found in the land of the living.

“Have the men of my tent not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

“Do not say,
‘We have found wisdom;
God will rout him, not man.’

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

“For He pays a man according to his work,
And makes him find it according to his way.

“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.