He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

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

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?