Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

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

If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

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

And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil.

Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

“Indeed, I am completely unworthy – how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!”

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.