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But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;

"God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.

There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

If he would take his rod away from me, and not let dread of him terrify me,

But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.

God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;