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But he said to her, "You speak as one of the wickedly foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept calamity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

May that day be darkness;Let not God seek it from above,Nor light shine on it.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,And whom God has hedged in?

Is not your fear of God your confidence,And the integrity of your ways your hope?

By the breath of God they perish,And by the wind of His anger they come to an end.

‘Can mankind be right before God?Can a man be pure before his Maker?

"But as for me, I would seek God,And I would set my cause before God,

"Behold, how blessed is the man whom God reproves,So do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,Their poison my spirit drinks;The horrors of God are arranged against me.

"Oh that my request might come to pass,And that God would grant my hope!

Would that God were willing to crush me,That He would release His hand and cut me off!

Does God pervert justice?Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

If you would seek God earnestlyAnd plead for the grace of the Almighty,

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

Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,Nor will He strengthen the hand of the evildoers.

"In truth I know that this is so;But how can a man be in the right before God?

God is the One who removes the mountains, they know not how,When He overturns them in His anger;

"God will not turn back His anger;Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.

I will say to God, ‘Do not account me as wicked;Let me know why You contend with me.

But would that God might speak,And open His lips against you,