But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

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

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;

They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.

And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.

Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.

Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?

What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,

As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,

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?

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

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

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

Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

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

And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?

Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?

One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

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

Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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

He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.

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;

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.

But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.

He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;

He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.

But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief --

They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

(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 covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst.

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.

When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

See now the behemoth, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.

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

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?