4:2 “If someone should attempt a word with you,
will you be impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking?
4:5 But now the same thing comes to you,
and you are discouraged;
it strikes you,
and you are terrified.
6:3 But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea,
that is why my words have been wild.
8:9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge,
since our days on earth are but a shadow.
11:12 But an empty man will become wise,
when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked fail,
and escape eludes them;
their one hope is to breathe their last.”
13:3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.
14:18 But as a mountain falls away and crumbles,
and as a rock will be removed from its place,
17:10 “But turn, all of you, and come now!
I will not find a wise man among you.
19:7 “If I cry out, ‘Violence!’
I receive no answer;
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
19:16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond,
even though I implore him with my own mouth.
20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief,
the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
20:11 His bones were full of his youthful vigor,
but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
21:16 But their prosperity is not their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
21:34 So how can you console me with your futile words?
Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
23:10 But he knows the pathway that I take;
if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.
24:12 From the city the dying groan,
and the wounded cry out for help,
but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
24:23 God may let them rest in a feeling of security,
but he is constantly watching all their ways.
25:6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot –
a son of man, who is only a worm!”
27:19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more.
When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
30:20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me;
I stand up, and you only look at me.
30:28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun;
in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
31:32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside,
for I opened my doors to the traveler –
32:16 And I have waited. But because they do not speak,
because they stand there and answer no more,
34:31 “Has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured chastisement,
but I will not act wrongly any more.
34:36 But Job will be tested to the end,
because his answers are like those of wicked men.
36:12 But if they refuse to listen,
they pass over the river of death,
and expire without knowledge.
36:17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked,
judgment and justice take hold of you.
39:13 “The wings of the ostrich flap with joy,
but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye has seen you.