For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked –

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.

See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.

He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

Let those who curse the day curse it – those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”