Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

and the Sabeans attacked and swooped down on them and took away the animals. They also killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:

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:

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, - when there came - consternation!

From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?"

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

Reconsider; don’t be unjust.
Reconsider; my righteousness is still the issue.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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

“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,
O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.

If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not

He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;

Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.

It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

“They pass by like the [swift] boats made of reeds,
Like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down.

Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.

If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?

if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it,
and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents—

Your life will be brighter than noonday. Even its darkness will be like dawn.

And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,

Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

'Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

He leadeth away the priests into captivity, and turneth the mighty upside down.

"Don't talk to me! It's my turn to speak; then whatever happens, happens.

"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

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

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

What do you know that we don’t?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

It shall be done before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.

Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; [the] graveyard [is] for me.

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

"My days are past; my plans are broken down-- [even] the desires of my heart.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down.

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me.

He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

"{O that} my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!

Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man was placed on earth,

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

{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.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!
We don’t want to know Your ways.

For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Have you never consulted those who travel the roads?
Don’t you accept their reports?

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,