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For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
    God has taken away my right:
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.
    My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
What man is like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water,
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
    and walks with wicked men?
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
    that he should delight himself with God.’

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    for Job has said, “I’m innocent;
        God has denied my just cause;
    because of my cause I’m thought a liar;
        my wound from an arrow is incurable, even though I didn’t rebel.”
Who is a man like Job?
    He drinks mockery like water
    and travels a path with wrongdoers,
        walking with evil persons.
Indeed he said, “No one is rewarded
    for delighting in God.”

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