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.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

How forcible are words of uprightness. But your reproof, what does it reprove?

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

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

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

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

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from Shaddai on high?

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

"If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

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?'

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

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

By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.