42Then Job replied to the Lord : 2I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. 3You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me t...
41Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope? 2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words? 4Will he make an agre...
8Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. 3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of th...
7Does not man have hard service on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired man? 2Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages, 3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have...
6Then Job replied: 2If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! 3It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas- no wonder my words have been impetuous. 4The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in thei...
5Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple. 3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. 4His children are far from safety, cr...
4Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? 3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. 4Your words have supported those who stumble...
3After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2He said: 3May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, 'A boy is born!' 4That day-may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine upon it....
2On another day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. 2And the Lord said to Satan, Where have you come from? Satan answered the Lord , From roaming through the earth and g...
1In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2He had seven sons and three daughters, 3and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen...
