If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent.

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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

whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.

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

Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.