‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

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.”

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

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

And so Job died, old and full of days.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?