“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

“But wisdom – where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him –

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.