1-2. Job, will you be annoyed if I speak?I can't keep quiet any longer.
3. You have taught many peopleand given strength to feeble hands.
4. When someone stumbled, weak and tired,your words encouraged him to stand.
5. Now it's your turn to be in trouble,and you are too stunned to face it.
6. You worshipped God, and your life was blameless;and so you should have confidence and hope.
7. Think back now. Name a single casewhere a righteous person met with disaster.
8. I have seen people plough fields of eviland sow wickedness like seed;now they harvest wickedness and evil.
9. Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.
10. The wicked roar and growl like lions,but God silences them and breaks their teeth.