The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

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

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

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.

Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

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