to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

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

Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

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.”

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

“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!

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.