And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.