So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify 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 sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.

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

Eliphaz: Job Has Sinned

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?

If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.

That You should seek for my iniquity And search out my sin,

Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.

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

Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin.

If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’— Since the root of the matter is found in me,

“Do you not know this of old, Since man was placed on earth,

They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice to the sound of the flute.

“Can anyone teach God knowledge, Since He judges those on high?

How then can you comfort me with empty words, Since falsehood remains in your answers?”

Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

“Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see not His days?

As drought and heat consume the snow waters, So the grave consumes those who have sinned.

The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

(Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for a curse on his soul);

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’

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

For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?