Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent.

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

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

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

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

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear.

Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

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

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.