Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

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

And he said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.