And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!

but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!

And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.

Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.

So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?

Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.

Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

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

I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.

Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?

My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.

And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: my reins are consumed within me.

If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

The righteous see it, and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn:

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

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

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.

Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;

And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

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

He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;

The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out;

The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;

The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger was kindled.

Therefore I say, Hearken to me; I also will shew what I know.

Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say.

That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man.

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.

Then he openeth men's ears, and sealeth their instruction,

Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.

For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to his way.

Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?

Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused his judgment; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.

Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.

Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness.