But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.

who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.

that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

“If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?

He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.

They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.

Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.

A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

“If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together,

“Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.

His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.

“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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.

Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

“At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.

The Lord Answers Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.

The Lord Challenges Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?

Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.