1:13 Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
1:18 While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
5:5 The hungry eat up his harvest,
and take it even from behind the thorns,
and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
14:12 so man lies down and does not rise;
until the heavens are no more,
they will not awake
nor arise from their sleep.
21:17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?
How often does their misfortune come upon them?
How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
22:18 But it was he who filled their houses
with good things –
yet the counsel of the wicked
was far from me.
29:25 I chose the way for them
and sat as their chief;
I lived like a king among his troops;
I was like one who comforts mourners.
30:4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes,
and the root of the broom tree was their food.
39:1 “Are you acquainted with the way
the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?