Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

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

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.”

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.”

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.