II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends
(3:1-27:33)
3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
3:19 Small and great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
4:17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God?
Or a man pure before his Creator?
5:3 I myself have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.
5:18 For he wounds, but he also bandages;
he strikes, but his hands also heal.
8:19 Indeed, this is the joy of his way,
and out of the earth others spring up.
9:5 He who removes mountains suddenly,
who overturns them in his anger;
9:13 God does not restrain his anger;
under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.
9:33 Nor is there an arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both,
11:5 But if only God would speak,
if only he would open his lips against you,
12:13 “With God are wisdom and power;
counsel and understanding are his.
13:11 Would not his splendor terrify you
and the fear he inspires fall on you?
14:22 Only his flesh has pain for himself,
and he mourns for himself.”
15:2 “Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge,
or fill his belly with the east wind?
15:21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears;
in a time of peace marauders attack him.
15:25 for he stretches out his hand against God,
and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
15:31 Let him not trust in what is worthless,
deceiving himself;
for worthlessness will be his reward.
16:21 and he contends with God on behalf of man
as a man pleads for his friend.
17:9 But the righteous man holds to his way,
and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
18:5 “Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished;
his flame of fire does not shine.
18:11 Terrors frighten him on all sides
and dog his every step.
18:12 Calamity is hungry for him,
and misfortune is ready at his side.
18:17 His memory perishes from the earth,
he has no name in the land.
19:6 know then that God has wronged me
and encircled me with his net.
20:20 For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;
he does not let anything he desires escape.
20:21 “Nothing is left for him to devour;
that is why his prosperity does not last.
20:27 The heavens reveal his iniquity;
the earth rises up against him.
20:29 Such is the lot God allots the wicked,
and the heritage of his appointment from God.”
21:23 “One man dies in his full vigor,
completely secure and prosperous,
23:2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter;
his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
25:2 “Dominion and awesome might belong to God;
he establishes peace in his heights.
26:9 He conceals the face of the full moon,
shrouding it with his clouds.
26:11 The pillars of the heavens tremble
and are amazed at his rebuke.
27:23 It claps its hands at him in derision
and hisses him away from his place.
28:10 He has cut out channels through the rocks;
his eyes have spotted every precious thing.
33:10 Yet God finds occasions with me;
he regards me as his enemy!
33:17 to turn a person from his sin,
and to cover a person’s pride.
33:22 He draws near to the place of corruption,
and his life to the messengers of death.
33:29 “Indeed, God does all these things,
twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,
34:9 For he says, ‘It does not profit a man
when he makes his delight with God.’
34:27 because they have turned away from following him,
and have not understood any of his ways,
34:35 that Job speaks without knowledge
and his words are without understanding.
35:16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose;
without knowledge he multiplies words.”
36:22 Indeed, God is exalted in his power;
who is a teacher like him?
36:24 Remember to extol his work,
which people have praised in song.
36:26 “Yes, God is great – beyond our knowledge!
The number of his years is unsearchable.
36:29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?
36:30 See how he scattered his lightning about him;
he has covered the depths of the sea.
36:32 With his hands he covers the lightning,
and directs it against its target.
36:33 His thunder announces the coming storm,
the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.
37:5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;
he does great things beyond our understanding.
37:7 He causes everyone to stop working,
so that all people may know his work.
37:11 He loads the clouds with moisture;
he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
37:15 Do you know how God commands them,
how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?
41:9 (41:1) See, his expectation is wrong,
he is laid low even at the sight of it.