2:6 So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”
5:12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty
so that their hands cannot accomplish
what they had planned!
5:13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
5:15 So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth,
even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
6:9 And that God would be willing to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand
and kill me.
6:14 “To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend
even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
7:10 He returns no more to his house,
nor does his place of residence know him any more.
8:6 if you become pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself for you,
and will restore your righteous abode.
8:18 If he is uprooted from his place,
then that place will disown him, saying,
‘I have never seen you!’
8:20 “Surely, God does not reject a blameless man,
nor does he grasp the hand
of the evildoers.
9:12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back?
Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13:9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you?
Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
14:6 Look away from him and let him desist,
until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
14:20 You overpower him once for all,
and he departs;
you change his appearance
and send him away.
15:28 he lived in ruined towns
and in houses where no one lives,
where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
15:29 He will not grow rich,
and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the land.
16:13 his archers surround me.
Without pity he pierces my kidneys
and pours out my gall on the ground.
17:6 He has made me a byword to people,
I am the one in whose face they spit.
18:14 He is dragged from the security of his tent,
and marched off to the king of terrors.
19:16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond,
even though I implore him with my own mouth.
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that as the last
he will stand upon the earth.
20:13 if he retains it for himself
and does not let it go,
and holds it fast in his mouth,
20:17 He will not look on the streams,
the rivers, which are the torrents
of honey and butter.
20:23 “While he is filling his belly,
God sends his burning anger against him,
and rains down his blows upon him.
21:31 No one denounces his conduct to his face;
no one repays him for what he has done.
22:27 You will pray to him and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows to him.
22:29 When people are brought low and you say
‘Lift them up!’
then he will save the downcast;
22:30 he will deliver even someone who is not innocent,
who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”
23:8 “If I go to the east, he is not there,
and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.
24:23 God may let them rest in a feeling of security,
but he is constantly watching all their ways.
25:5 If even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
26:8 He locks the waters in his clouds,
and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
26:10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters
as a boundary between light and darkness.
27:8 For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?
27:17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear,
and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone;
it sweeps him out of his place.
28:3 Man puts an end to the darkness;
he searches the farthest recesses
for the ore in the deepest darkness.
28:9 On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand;
he has overturned mountains at their bases.
29:3 when he caused his lamp
to shine upon my head,
and by his light
I walked through darkness;
30:24 “Surely one does not stretch out his hand
against a broken man
when he cries for help in his distress.
31:14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment;
when he intervenes,
how will I respond to him?
V. The Speeches of Elihu (32:1-37:24)
Elihu’s First Speech32:1 So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
33:13 Why do you contend against him,
that he does not answer all a person’s words?
33:18 He spares a person’s life from corruption,
his very life from crossing over the river.
33:25 then his flesh is restored like a youth’s;
he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.
33:28 He redeemed my life
from going down to the place of corruption,
and my life sees the light!’
33:30 to turn back his life from the place of corruption,
that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,
he observes all a person’s steps.
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God,
or what does he receive from your hand?
35:15 And further, when you say
that his anger does not punish,
and that he does not know transgression!
36:9 then he reveals to them what they have done,
and their transgressions,
that they were behaving proudly.
37:3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
41:10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
42:16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.