If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

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

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.