³² Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he went down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

³³ There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedfast for eight years and was paralyzed.

³⁴ And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [now] makes you whole. Get up and make your bed! And immediately [Aeneas] stood up.

³⁵ Then all the inhabitants of Lydda and the plain of Sharon saw [what had happened to] him and they turned to the Lord.

³⁶ Now there was at Joppa a disciple [a woman] named [in Aramaic] Tabitha, which [in Greek] means Dorcas. She was abounding in good deeds and acts of charity.

³⁷ About that time she fell sick and died, and when they had cleansed her, they laid [her] in an upper room.

³⁸ Since Lydda was near Joppa [however], the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him begging him, Do come to us without delay.

³⁹ So Peter [immediately] rose and accompanied them. And when he had arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, crying and displaying undershirts (tunics) and [other] garments such as Dorcas was accustomed to make while she was with them.

⁴⁰ But Peter put them all out [of the room] and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, Tabitha, get up! And she opened her eyes; and when she saw Peter, she raised herself and sat upright.

⁴¹ And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling in God’s people and the widows, he presented her to them alive.

⁴² And this became known throughout all Joppa, and many came to believe on the Lord [to adhere to and trust in and rely on Him as the Christ and as their Savior].

⁴³ And Peter remained in Joppa for considerable time with a certain Simon a tanner.

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3 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day (birthday).

² And Job said,

³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which announced, There is a man-child conceived.

⁴ Let that day be darkness! May not God above regard it, nor light shine upon it.

⁵ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).

⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

⁷ Yes, let that night be solitary and barren; let no joyful voice come into it.

⁸ Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.

⁹ Let the stars of the early dawn of that day be dark; let [the morning] look in vain for the light, nor let it behold the day’s dawning,

¹⁰ Because it shut not the doors of my mother’s womb nor hid sorrow and trouble from my eyes.

¹¹ Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

¹³ For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death]

¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the earth, who built up [now] desolate ruins for themselves,

¹⁵ Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

¹⁶ Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

¹⁷ There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

¹⁸ There the [captive] prisoners rest together; they hear not the taskmaster’s voice.

¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.^(A)

²⁰ Why is light [of life] given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

²¹ Who long and wait for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

²² Who rejoice exceedingly and are elated when they find the grave?

²³ [Why is the light of day given] to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

²⁴ For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings are poured out like water.

²⁵ For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me.

²⁶ I was not or am not at ease, nor had I or have I rest, nor was I or am I quiet, yet trouble came and still comes [upon me].

4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

² If we venture to converse with you, will you be offended? Yet who can restrain himself from speaking?

³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

⁴ Your words have held firm him who was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

⁵ But now it is come upon you, and you faint and are grieved; it touches you, and you are troubled and dismayed.

⁶ Is not your [reverent] fear of God your confidence and the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?

⁷ Think [earnestly], I beg of you: who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where were those upright and in right standing with God cut off?

⁸ As I myself have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble and mischief reap the same.

⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

¹¹ The old and strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁴ Fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up!

¹⁶ [The spirit] stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying,

¹⁷ Can mortal man be just before God, or be more right than He is? Can a man be pure before his Maker, or be more cleansed than He is?^(B)

¹⁸ Even in His [heavenly] servants He puts no trust or confidence, and His angels He charges with folly and error—

¹⁹ How much more those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

²⁰ Between morning and evening they are destroyed; without anyone noticing it they perish forever.

²¹ Is not their tent cord plucked up within them [so that the tent falls]? Do they not die, and that without [acquiring] wisdom?