So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

But now, the sun cannot be looked at – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

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.