For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord.

Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

“To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

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.

Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

Men of understanding say to me – any wise man listening to me says –

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

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.