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

Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

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

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

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

Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

“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.

They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord – and Satan also arrived among them.

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

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