Now there came a certain day, when the sons of God entered in to present themselves unto Yahweh, - so the accuser also entered, in their midst.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

And there came a certain day when the sons of God entered in, to present themselves unto Yahweh - so the accuser also entered in their midst, to present himself unto Yahweh.

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,
O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh's hand has done this?

Even, for him, would ye be partial? Or, for GOD, would ye so plead?

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

For who so humbleth himself, him shall he set up: and who so looketh meekly, shall be healed.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

{According to your judgment}, must he repay [it] because you rejected [this]? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so declare what you know.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

Will he make a covenant with you
so that you can take him as a slave forever?

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.