If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

So Job died, being old and full of days.