The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

You said, ‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.