God

And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?

And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.

He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.

How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: