He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

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

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

That night – let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?

and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!”

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”