6:7 I have refused to touch such things;
they are like loathsome food to me.
6:22 “Have I ever said, ‘Give me something,
and from your fortune make gifts in my favor’?
7:13 If I say, “My bed will comfort me,
my couch will ease my complaint,”
9:2 “Truly, I know that this is so.
But how can a human be just before God?
9:14 “How much less, then, can I answer him
and choose my words to argue with him!
9:22 “It is all one! That is why I say,
‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water,
and make my hands clean with lye,
10:13 “But these things you have concealed in your heart;
I know that this is with you:
10:21 before I depart, never to return,
to the land of darkness
and the deepest shadow,
11:4 For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless,
and I am pure in your sight.’
13:14 Why do I put myself in peril,
and take my life in my hands?
13:19 Who will contend with me?
If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
13:28 So I waste away like something rotten,
like a garment eaten by moths.
15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.
16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.
What miserable comforters are you all!
16:15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and buried my horn in the dust;
19:4 But even if it were true that I have erred,
my error remains solely my concern!
19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass,
and has set darkness over my paths.
19:17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my brothers.
19:18 Even youngsters have scorned me;
when I get up, they scoff at me.
19:19 All my closest friends detest me;
and those whom I love have turned against me.
19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God,
20:3 When I hear a reproof that dishonors me,
then my understanding prompts me to answer.
21:4 Is my complaint against a man?
If so, why should I not be impatient?
21:27 “Yes, I know what you are thinking,
the schemes by which you would wrong me.
29:7 When I went out to the city gate
and secured my seat in the public square,
29:15 I was eyes for the blind
and feet for the lame;
29:17 I broke the fangs of the wicked,
and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
29:22 After I had spoken, they did not respond;
my words fell on them drop by drop.
30:19 He has flung me into the mud,
and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
30:25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
30:29 I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.
31:5 If I have walked in falsehood,
and if my foot has hastened to deceit –
31:29 If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy
or exulted because calamity found him –
31:33 if I have covered my transgressions as men do,
by hiding iniquity in my heart,
31:39 if I have eaten its produce without paying,
or caused the death of its owners,
32:7 I said to myself, ‘Age should speak,
and length of years should make wisdom known.’
32:18 For I am full of words,
and the spirit within me constrains me.
32:19 Inside I am like wine which has no outlet,
like new wineskins ready to burst!
33:1 “But now, O Job, listen to my words,
and hear everything I have to say!
33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth;
my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing
(I heard the sound of the words!):
33:31 Pay attention, Job – listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
33:33 If not, you listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
34:5 For Job says, ‘I am innocent,
but God turns away my right.
34:16 “If you have understanding, listen to this,
hear what I have to say.
35:3 But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’
and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
35:4 I will reply to you,
and to your friends with you.
38:9 when I made the storm clouds its garment,
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
38:10 when I prescribed its limits,
and set in place its bolts and doors,
38:23 which I reserve for the time of trouble,
for the day of war and battle?
39:6 to whom I appointed the steppe for its home,
the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
40:14 Then I myself will acknowledge to you
that your own right hand can save you.
41:11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
42:2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted;