The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.

“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Job Replies: Where Is God?

Then Job answered and said:

Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

Job Continues: Where Is Wisdom?

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.

“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

“From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,

His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”

Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.