<t /><p class="bodytext">So these three men refused to answer<n id="2" /> Job further, because he was righteous in his<n id="3" /> own eyes.

<p class="poetry">The clouds<n id="1" /> go round in circles,p> <p class="poetry">wheeling about according to his plans,p> <p class="poetry">to carry out<n id="2" /> all that he commands themp> <p class="poetry">over the face of the whole inhabited world.p>

<p class="poetry">But now, the sun<n id="1" /> cannot be looked at<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">it is bright in the skies &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Is it not fierce<n id="1" /> when it is awakened?p> <p class="poetry">Who is he, then, who can stand before it?<n id="2" />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>

<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">But if God<n id="1" /> is quiet, who can condemn<n id="2" /> him?p> <p class="poetry">If he hides his face, then who can see him?p> <p class="poetry">Yet<n id="3" /> he is over the individual and the nation alike,<n id="4" />p>

His possessions<n id="1" /> included<n id="2" /> 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household.<n id="3" /> Thus he<n id="4" /> was the greatest of all the people in the east.<n id="5" />p>