Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

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

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, ‘I have never seen you!’

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

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

Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

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.”