Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

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

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he would be swallowed up!

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”