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

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

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.

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

If I have sinned – what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.