Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”