But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

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

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

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

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

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

where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

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

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, Shaddai, who has made my soul bitter.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

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

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

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

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha.' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

"See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.