Sennacherib’s servants further insulted the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

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

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

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

Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

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

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.