When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

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

A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

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

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,

Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?