They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

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.

Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

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

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

“Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.