<p class="poetry">Will partners<n id="1" /> bargain<n id="2" /> for it?p> <p class="poetry">Will they divide it up<n id="3" /> among the merchants?p>

<p class="poetry">If you lay your hand on it,p> <p class="poetry">you will remember<n id="1" /> the fight,p> <p class="poetry">and you will never do it again!p>

<p class="poetry">The folds<n id="1" /> of its flesh are tightly joined;p> <p class="poetry">they are firm on it, immovable.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Its underparts<n id="1" /> are the sharp points of potsherds,p> <p class="poetry">it leaves its mark in the mudp> <p class="poetry">like a threshing sledge.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The likes of it is not on earth,p> <p class="poetry">a creature<n id="1" /> without fear.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the day came when<n id="2" /> the sons of God<n id="3" /> came to present themselves before<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; and Satan<n id="5" /> also arrived among them.

and a messenger came to Job, saying, &#8220;The oxen were plowing<n id="1" /> and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

<p class="poetry">That day<n id="1" /> &#8211; let it be darkness;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let not God on high regard<n id="3" /> it,p> <p class="poetry">nor let light shine<n id="4" /> on it!p>

<p class="poetry">Let darkness and the deepestp> <p class="poetry">shadow<n id="1" /> claim it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let a cloud settle on it;p> <p class="poetry">let whatever blackens the day<n id="3" /> terrify it!p>

<p class="poetry">But because it is heavier<n id="1" /> than the sand<n id="2" /> of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">that is why my words have been wild.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">if you become<n id="1" /> pure<n id="2" /> and upright,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">even now he will rouse himself<n id="4" /> for you,p> <p class="poetry">and will restore<n id="5" /> your righteous abode.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">For we were born yesterday<n id="1" /> and do not have knowledge,p> <p class="poetry">since our days on earth are but a shadow.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He leans against his house but it does not hold up,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he takes hold<n id="2" /> of it but it does not stand.p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> he passes by me, I cannot see<n id="2" /> him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;It is all one!<n id="1" /> That is why I say,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;He destroys the blameless and the guilty.&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;I<n id="1" /> am weary<n id="2" /> of my life;p> <p class="poetry">I will complain without restraint;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.p>

<p class="poetry">I will say to God, &#8216;Do not condemn<n id="1" /> me;p> <p class="poetry">tell me<n id="2" /> why you are contending<n id="3" /> with me.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Is it good for you<n id="1" /> to oppress,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to<n id="3" /> despise the work of your hands,p> <p class="poetry">while<n id="4" /> you smile<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">on the schemes of the wicked?p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt;p> <p class="poetry">if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">And you put my feet in the stocks<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you watch all my movements;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you put marks<n id="3" /> on the soles of my feet.p>