<p class="poetry">Nor is there an arbiter<n id="1" /> between us,p> <p class="poetry">who<n id="2" /> might lay<n id="3" /> his hand on us both,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will call<n id="1" /> and I<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will answer you;p> <p class="poetry">you will long for<n id="3" /> the creature you have made.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">People<n id="1" /> have opened their mouths against me,p> <p class="poetry">they have struck my cheek in scorn;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they unite<n id="3" /> together against me.p>

<p class="poetry">whom I will see for myself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and whom my own eyes will behold,p> <p class="poetry">and not another.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My heart<n id="3" /> grows faint within me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Such is the lot God allots the wicked,p> <p class="poetry">and the heritage of his appointment<n id="1" /> from God.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">No one denounces his conduct to his face;p> <p class="poetry">no one repays him for what<n id="1" /> he has done.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">And when he is carried to the tombs,p> <p class="poetry">and watch is kept<n id="1" /> over the funeral mound,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;For you took pledges<n id="1" /> from your brothersp> <p class="poetry">for no reason,p> <p class="poetry">and you stripped the clothing from the naked.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">When people are brought low<n id="1" /> and you sayp> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">then he will save the downcast;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;How you have helped<n id="1" /> the powerless!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How you have saved the person who has no strength!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">the blessing of the dying man descended on me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I made the widow&#8217;s heart rejoice;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> no stranger had to spend the night outside,p> <p class="poetry">for I opened my doors to the traveler<n id="2" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">So do not say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;We have found wisdom!p> <p class="poetry">God will refute<n id="2" /> him, not man!&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Inside I am like wine which has no outlet,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like new wineskins<n id="2" /> ready to burst!p>

<p class="poetry">Do you really think<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that one who hates justice can govern?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">And will you declare guiltyp> <p class="poetry">the supremely righteous<n id="3" /> One,p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Will the one who contends<n id="1" /> with the Almighty correct him?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">(Who has confronted<n id="1" /> me that I should repay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Everything under heaven belongs to me!)<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">It looks on every haughty being;p> <p class="poetry">it is king over all that are proud.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;All right then,<n id="1" /> everything he has is<n id="2" /> in your power.<n id="3" /> Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!&#8221;<n id="4" /> So Satan went out<n id="5" /> from the presence of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="6" />p>