<p class="poetry">Why do you contend against him,p> <p class="poetry">that he does not answer all a person&#8217;s<n id="1" /> words?p>

<p class="poetry">Tell us what we should<n id="1" /> say to him.p> <p class="poetry">We cannot prepare a case<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the darkness.p>

<p class="poetry">It ranks first among the works of God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the One who made itp> <p class="poetry">has furnished it with a sword.<n id="2" />p>

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined<n id="1" /> with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the <sc>Lordsc> had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver<n id="2" /> and a gold ring.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">As<n id="1" /> a cloud is dispersed and then disappears,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so the one who goes down to the grave<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">does not come up again.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">After that a voice roars;p> <p class="poetry">he thunders with an exalted voice,p> <p class="poetry">and he does not hold back his lightning bolts<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when his voice is heard.p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> I have sinned &#8211; what have I done to you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">O watcher of men?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why have you set me as your target?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Have I become a burden to you?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">how much more to those who live in houses of clay,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose foundation is in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">who are crushed<n id="2" /> like<n id="3" /> a moth?p>

<p class="poetry">The clods of the torrent valley<n id="1" /> are sweet to him;p> <p class="poetry">behind him everybody follows in procession,p> <p class="poetry">and before him goes a countless throng.p>

<p class="poetry">Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as he goes back and forthp> <p class="poetry">in the vault<n id="2" /> of heaven.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Are God&#8217;s consolations<n id="1" /> too trivial for you;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or a word spoken<n id="3" /> in gentleness to you?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;O earth, do not cover my blood,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor let there be a secret<n id="2" /> place for my cry.p>

<p class="poetry">Neither gold nor crystal<n id="1" /> can be compared with it,p> <p class="poetry">nor can a vase<n id="2" /> of gold match its worth.p>

<p class="poetry">if I looked at the sun<n id="1" /> when it was shining,p> <p class="poetry">and the moon advancing as a precious thing,p>

<p class="poetry">Now in this, you are not right &#8211; I answer you,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for God is greater than a human being.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He spares a person&#8217;s life from corruption,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">his very life from crossing over<n id="2" /> the river.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8220;The wings of the ostrich<n id="2" /> flap with joy,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever strikes it with a sword<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will have no effect,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.p>

<t /><n id="2" /><p class="bodytext">There was a man<n id="3" /> in the land of Uz<n id="4" /> whose<n id="5" /> name was Job.<n id="6" /> And that man was pure<n id="7" /> and upright,<n id="8" /> one who feared God and turned away from evil.<n id="9" />

<p class="poetry">For you will have a pact with the stones<n id="1" /> of the field,p> <p class="poetry">and the wild animals<n id="2" /> will be at peace<n id="3" /> with you.p>