<p class="poetry">And you put my feet in the stocks<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you watch all my movements;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you put marks<n id="3" /> on the soles of my feet.p>

<p class="poetry">If a man dies, will he live again?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the days of my hard service<n id="2" /> I will wait<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until my release comes.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">All his days<n id="1" /> the wicked man suffers torment,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">throughout the number of the yearsp> <p class="poetry">that<n id="3" /> are stored up for the tyrant.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But turn, all of you,<n id="1" /> and come<n id="2" /> now!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will not find a wise man among you.p>

<p class="poetry">Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a fire which has not been kindled<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will consume himp> <p class="poetry">and devour what is left in his tent.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">They are exalted for a little while,p> <p class="poetry">and then they are gone,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are brought low<n id="2" /> like all others,p> <p class="poetry">and gathered in,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and like a head of grain they are cut off.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Man puts an end to the darkness;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he searches the farthest recessesp> <p class="poetry">for the ore in the deepest darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he looks to the ends of the earthp> <p class="poetry">and observes everything under the heavens.p>

<p class="poetry">For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and it would uproot<n id="2" /> all my harvest.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed, God does all these things,p> <p class="poetry">twice, three times, in his dealings<n id="2" /> with a person,p>

<p class="poetry">because they have turned away from following him,p> <p class="poetry">and have not understood<n id="1" /> any of his ways,p>

<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">For the hills bring it food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">where all the wild animals play.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>

When<n id="1" /> the days of their feasting were finished,<n id="2" /> Job would send<n id="3" /> for them and sanctify<n id="4" /> them; he would get up early<n id="5" /> in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to<n id="6" /> the number of them all. For Job thought, &#8220;Perhaps<n id="7" /> my children<n id="8" /> have sinned and cursed<n id="9" /> God in their hearts.&#8221; This was Job&#8217;s customary practice.<n id="10" />p>

Have you<n id="1" /> not made a hedge<n id="2" /> around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed<n id="3" /> the work of his hands, and his livestock<n id="4" /> have increased<n id="5" /> in the land.

But<n id="1" /> extend your hand and strike<n id="2" /> everything he has, and he will no doubt<n id="3" /> curse you<n id="4" /> to your face!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> Satan answered the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Skin for<n id="2" /> skin!<n id="3" /> Indeed, a man will give up<n id="4" /> all that he has to save his life!<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">who shows no partiality to princes,p> <p class="poetry">and does not take note of<n id="1" /> the rich more than the poor,p> <p class="poetry">because all of them are the work of his hands?p>