And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.

that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;

Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,

They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),

My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.