Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord -- and Satan also arrived among them.

Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord.

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.