to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

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

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

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.”