What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

“Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,