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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain `to him', that thou makest thy ways perfect?

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That `God' distributeth sorrows in his anger?

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown `by man' shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth `only' falsehood?

Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

Job 22

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

Knowest thou `not' this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

Job 20

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath `bringeth' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

And after my skin, even' this body', is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,