3:3 “Let the day on which I was born perish,
and the night that said,
‘A man has been conceived!’
3:12 Why did the knees welcome me,
and why were there two breasts
that I might nurse at them?
3:16 Or why was I not buried
like a stillborn infant,
like infants who have never seen the light?
4:8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and those who sow trouble reap the same.
6:8 “Oh that my request would be realized,
and that God would grant me what I long for!
7:3 thus I have been made to inherit
months of futility,
and nights of sorrow
have been appointed to me.
7:12 Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep,
that you must put me under guard?
8:18 If he is uprooted from his place,
then that place will disown him, saying,
‘I have never seen you!’
10:2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
tell me why you are contending with me.’
10:14 If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
10:16 If I lift myself up,
you hunt me as a fierce lion,
and again you display your power against me.
10:20 Are not my days few?
Cease, then, and leave me alone,
that I may find a little comfort,
13:13 “Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak;
then let come to me what may.
13:20 Only in two things spare me, O God,
and then I will not hide from your face:
16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few,
and then I will go on the way of no return.
17:6 He has made me a byword to people,
I am the one in whose face they spit.
17:10 “But turn, all of you, and come now!
I will not find a wise man among you.
17:14 If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
19:10 He tears me down on every side until I perish;
he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
19:15 My guests and my servant girls
consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their eyes.
19:20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh;
I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that as the last
he will stand upon the earth.
23:7 There an upright person
could present his case before him,
and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
23:11 My feet have followed his steps closely;
I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
23:17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness,
because of the thick darkness
that covered my face.
29:3 when he caused his lamp
to shine upon my head,
and by his light
I walked through darkness;
29:4 just as I was in my most productive time,
when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
29:12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help,
and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
29:13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me,
and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
29:14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me,
my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;
30:23 I know that you are bringing me to death,
to the meeting place for all the living.
31:13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants
or my female servants
when they disputed with me,
31:16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,
or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
31:17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself,
and did not share any of it with orphans –
31:19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing,
or a poor man without a coat,
31:23 For the calamity from God was a terror to me,
and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.
31:24 “If I have put my confidence in gold
or said to pure gold,
‘You are my security!’
31:26 if I looked at the sun when it was shining,
and the moon advancing as a precious thing,
31:28 then this also would be iniquity to be judged,
for I would have been false to God above.
31:30 I have not even permitted my mouth to sin
by asking for his life through a curse –
31:32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside,
for I opened my doors to the traveler –
32:14 Job has not directed his words to me,
and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.
32:16 And I have waited. But because they do not speak,
because they stand there and answer no more,
33:12 Now in this, you are not right – I answer you,
for God is greater than a human being.
37:20 Should he be informed that I want to speak?
If a man speaks, surely he would be swallowed up!
38:3 Get ready for a difficult task like a man;
I will question you
and you will inform me!
38:4 “Where were you
when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding!
38:11 when I said, ‘To here you may come
and no farther,
here your proud waves will be confined’?
40:7 “Get ready for a difficult task like a man.
I will question you and you will inform me!
41:12 I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement.
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye has seen you.