Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent.

The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

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

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

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.”