The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

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

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

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.”