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.

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.

Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?

For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea.

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?
And that You are concerned about him?

“And that You examine him every morning
And try and test him every moment?

And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.

Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

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

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

“If one should want to contend or dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

"{If} he passes by me, {I would not see him}; and [if] he should move on, {I would not recognize him}.

How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?

If I summon [him], and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice--

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!

“I am accounted wicked and held guilty;
Why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?

“If I should wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,

Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

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

There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.

I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.

‘Does it indeed seem right to You to oppress,
To despise and reject the work of Your hands,
And to look with favor on the schemes of the wicked?

That You should seek for my guilt
And search after my sin?

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

So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.

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

Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

For it is he that knoweth the vanity of men. He seeth their wickedness also; should he not then consider it?

Then should the residue of thy life be as clear as the noon day, and spring forth as the morning.

Then shouldest thou take thy rest, and no man to make thee afraid, yea many one should set much by thee.

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

“Will not His majesty terrify you,
And will not the dread of Him fall upon you?

Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

“How many are my iniquities and sins [that so much sorrow should come to me]?
Make me recognize and understand my transgression and my sin.

Though there is - for a tree - hope, - if it should be cut down, that, again, it will grow, and, the tender branch thereof, will not cease;

If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:

If a man die, shall he live again ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands.

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

That you should turn your spirit against God
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

unto whom only the land was given, that no stranger should come among them.

And he has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities,
In houses which no one should inhabit,
Which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer?

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help.

Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

You who tear yourself in anger—
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?

Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

Should such one then as useth violence, wrong and oppression, doing all things of partiality, and having respect of persons, dwell in the land?

Shouldest thou then see no darkness? Should not the water flood run over thee?

wilt thou therefore say, 'Tush, how should God know? Doth his dominion reach beyond the clouds?

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?

He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.

"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

“For what is the portion I would have from God above,
And what heritage from the Almighty on high?

because something as lascivious as that is an iniquity that should be judged.

yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance.

What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Should I continue to wait now that they are silent,
now that they stand there and no longer answer?

Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

"Behold, unto these unreasonable words of thine will I make answer. Should God be reproved of man?

“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.

For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious to search whether it be right.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.