'One' in the Bible

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered and reflected on My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God [with reverence] and abstains from and turns away from evil [because he honors God].”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered and reflected on My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God [with reverence] and abstains from and turns away from evil [because he honors God]. And still he maintains and holds tightly to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to destroy him without cause.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

When they looked from a distance and did not recognize him [because of his disfigurement], they raised their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe [in grief] and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky [in sorrow].

“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,And there is no one to rescue them.

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighedAnd placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

“Then I would still have consolation,And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.

“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?

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

“It is all one; therefore I say,‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’

“I am a joke to my friends;I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him—A just and blameless man is a joke [and laughed to scorn].

“Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]?Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?

“You also open Your eyes upon himAnd bring him into judgment with Yourself.

“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?No one!

“God hands me over to criminalsAnd tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

“He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against meAnd He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.

“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.

“One dies in his full strength,Being wholly at ease and quiet and satisfied;

“He will even rescue the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent;And he will be rescued through the cleanness of your hands.”

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,And dwelt as a king among his soldiers,As one who comforts mourners.

“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand?Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?

“Did not He who made me in the womb make my servant,And did not the same One fashion us both in the womb?

“I assure you, the men of my tent have said,‘Who can find one [in need] who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice],When deep sleep falls on menWhile slumbering upon the bed,

“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,One out of a thousand,To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

So that godless men would not ruleNor be snares for the people.

“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,Who gives songs [of rejoicing] in the night,

“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial];He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding.

“Behold, his [assailant’s] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false;Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him?

“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?

“One is so near to anotherThat no air can come between them.

“They are joined one to another;They stick together and cannot be separated.

“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

“Behind him he makes a shining wake;One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].