While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?