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For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
    but God has taken away my rights.
I am innocent, but they call me a liar.
    My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’

“Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job,
    with his thirst for irreverent talk?
He chooses evil people as companions.
    He spends his time with wicked men.
He has even said, ‘Why waste time
    trying to please God?’

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For Job has said, ‘I am (A)in the right,
    and (B)God has taken away my right;
in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
    my wound is incurable, though I am (C)without transgression.’
What man is like Job,
    who (D)drinks up scoffing like water,
who travels in company with evildoers
    and walks (E)with wicked men?
For (F)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
    that he should take delight in God.’

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