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¹ And Job answered and said:² Truly I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?³ If he would argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has been hard against Him and been at peace?⁵ He who moves the mountains, and they do not know; when He overturns them in His anger;⁶ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;⁷ the One speaking to the sun and it does not rise; and He sets a seal around the stars;⁸ stretching out the heavens by Himself, and walking on the waves of the sea;⁹ who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;¹⁰ who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number?¹¹ Behold, He goes by me, and I do not see Him ; and He passes on, but I do not perceive Him.¹² Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?¹³ God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my words with Him!¹⁵ Though I were righteous, I could not answer Him ; I seek mercy for my judgment.¹⁶ If I had called and He had answered me; I would not believe that He had listened to my voice;¹⁷ who breaks me with a tempest, and adds to my wounds without cause;¹⁸ who will not allow me to bring back my breath, but fills me with bitterness.¹⁹ If I speak of strength, behold, He is mighty; and if of judgment, who can summon me?²⁰ If I justify myself, my mouth will condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse;²¹ though I were perfect, I would not know my own soul; I despise my life.

²² It is One; so then I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.²³ If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good;²⁶ they have passed away like the reed ships; as an eagle swoops on food.²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will loosen my face and be cheerful,²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent;²⁹ I have been condemned; why should I labor in vain?³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, and make my hands clean with soap,³¹ yet You will plunge me into the ditch, and my own clothes would abhor me.³² For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him; that we should come together in judgment;³³ there is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on both of us.³⁴ Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His dread make me afraid;³⁵ then I would speak, and not fear Him; for I am not so in myself.