Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

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

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

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

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

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.

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone –

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