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And then one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.

So Yahweh asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth—a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness even though you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse God and die."

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?

Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end.

‘Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

"But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

"Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

"O that my request may come, and that God may grant my hope,

that God would decide that he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Does God pervert justice, or Shaddai pervert righteousness?

If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish,

"Look, God will not reject the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can a human being be just before God?

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