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.

Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?