<p class="poetry">to the land of utter darkness,p> <p class="poetry">like the deepest darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow and disorder,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">where even the light<n id="2" /> is like darkness.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I would give him an accounting of my steps;p> <p class="poetry">like a prince I would approach him.p>

<p class="poetry">Your wickedness affects only<n id="1" /> a person like yourself,p> <p class="poetry">and your righteousness only other people.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its features<n id="2" /> are dyed<n id="3" /> like a garment.p>

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">My brothers<n id="1" /> have been as treacherous<n id="2" /> as a seasonal stream,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that flow away.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he<n id="1" /> is not a human being like I am,p> <p class="poetry">that<n id="2" /> I might answer him,p> <p class="poetry">that we might come<n id="3" /> together in judgment.p>

<p class="poetry">at the scent<n id="1" /> of water it will flourish<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and put forth<n id="3" /> shoots like a new plant.p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you pursue me like God does?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you never be satiated with my flesh?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth, from which food comes,p> <p class="poetry">is overturned below as though by fire;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, God is exalted in his power;p> <p class="poetry">who is a teacher<n id="1" /> like him?p>

<p class="poetry">Do you have an arm as powerful as God&#8217;s,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and can you thunder with a voice like his?p>

<p class="poetry">It makes its tail stiff<n id="1" /> like a cedar,p> <p class="poetry">the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.p>

<p class="poetry">Its heart<n id="1" /> is hard as rock,p> <p class="poetry">hard as a lower millstone.p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered<n id="1" /> my servant Job? There<n id="2" /> is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away<n id="3" /> from evil.&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;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<n id="1" /> to his integrity,<n id="2" /> so that<n id="3" /> you stirred me up to destroy him<n id="4" /> without reason.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>