to confirm these days of Purim, in their time appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had ordained concerning them: like as they upon their soul and upon their seed had confirmed the acts of the fasting and of her complaint.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

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}.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness. Let not God look upon it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this?

Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

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

Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

And you shall know that your offspring [are] many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

"Look, we have searched this out--it [is] true; hear it and know [it] {yourself}."

“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].

Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

The caravans of Tema look for these streams.
The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.

“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

The eye of anyone who looks on me
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?

How long wilt thou not look away 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?

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

"Look, God will not reject [the] blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.

If he came by me, I might not look upon him: if he went his way, I should not perceive it.

If {it is a matter of} strength, look, [he is] mighty. But if {it is a matter of} justice, who can summon me?

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

that You look for my wrongdoing
and search for my sin,

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

‘Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your marvelous power against me.

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

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

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

"{And your life will be brighter than noon}; [its] darkness will be like the morning.

You will be confident, because there is hope.
You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.

Look what ye know, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior unto you.

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

Please look, I have prepared [my] case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.

You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,

that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and [the] heavens are not clean in his eyes.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

“He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine,
And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.

"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.

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

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.

“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?

Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?