His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

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