And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands.

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.

He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

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

Nevertheless, seeing he hath not spoken unto me, therefore will not I answer him as ye have done."

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you leash him for your maidens?

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

“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

but it will clap its hands over him, hissing at him as it lunges toward him."

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,
and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

"Indeed, God is exalted in his power. Who is like him as a teacher?

“The quiver rattles against him,
[As do] the flashing spear and the lance [of his rider].

“The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;
As bread for their children in the desert.

And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.