Eternal One: Well, have you looked into the man, Job, My servant? He is unlike any other person on the whole earth—a very good man—his character spotless, his integrity unquestioned. In fact, he so believes in Me that he seeks, in all things, to honor Me and deliberately avoids evil in all of his affairs.

Eternal One: Well, have you looked into the man, Job, My servant? He is unlike any other person on the whole earth—a very good man—his character spotless, his integrity unquestioned. In fact, he so believes in Me that he seeks, in all things, to honor Me and deliberately avoids evil in all of his affairs. And I have found him to be unswervingly committed, despite the fact that you provoked Me to wreck him for no particular reason, to take away My protection and his prosperity.

May that day of birth become darkness, and when it has disappeared, may God above neither seek it out nor light find a way to shine on it.

As for me, my days are sprinting by like a runner. Seeing nothing good, they seek escape.

Is this why You seek out my faults or You go in search of all my error?

O earth, do not conceal my blood! And when they seek to silence my cry, refuse a place for its burial.

Even young children taunt me, and when I seek to rise, they mock me.

And push them out to live in the deep valleys of the wadis— those desert streams that come and go— So these outcasts seek shelter in the overhangs and crumbling caves that line the banks of no-man’s-land.

To my right, the horde arises. They seek to knock me off my feet, piling their disastrous ways against me.

You are weighed down, instead, with judgment usually reserved for the wicked. And yet, ironically, as you seek to lay hold of justice and judgment, justice and judgment have laid hold of you.

Will traders haggle over its price and others seek to divide it up among the merchants?