“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

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

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord – and Satan also arrived among them.

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

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

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.