{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

Now upon a time, when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan came also among them.

Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house,

At the time this one was speaking, {another} came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Some time later, divine beings again presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them to present himself to the LORD.

but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.

Let the stars of that night be dim through darkness of it. Let it look for light, but let it see none, neither the raising up of the fair morning:

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this?

“I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering],
But I cursed his dwelling immediately [for his destruction was certain].

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

In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

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

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.

He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?

That, with a stylus of iron and with lead, for all time - in the rock, they could be graven!

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].

Their bullock gendereth, and that not out of time: their cow calveth, and is not unfruitful.

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

“Will you keep to the ancient path
That wicked men walked [in the time of Noah],

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

Why doesn't the Almighty reserve time for judgment? And why don't those who know him perceive his days?

In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."

"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

I'll retain my righteousness and not compromise it; my conscience won't rebuke me at any time.

If he will delight himself upon the Almighty? will he call upon God in all time?

He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

"But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

“For I do not know how to flatter, [in an appropriate way, and I fear that],
My Maker would soon take me away.

For God speaks time and again,
but a person may not notice it.

He uncovers their ears at that time
and terrifies them with warnings,

“For He sets no appointed time for a man,
That he should appear before Him in judgment.

Thus he acknowledges their behavior, and overcomes them; when night time comes, they are crushed.

Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,
And opens their ear in time of oppression.

Prolong not thou the time, till there come a night for thee, to set other people in thy stead.

"Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],

Will the unicorn be so tame as to do the service, or to abide still by thy crib?

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

I spoke once, but I can't answer; I tried a second time, but I won't do so anymore."