I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

“But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

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

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

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

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,