Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He?
Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

And now, please look on me; for if I lie, it is before your face.

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

"Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

“Yes, I know it is true.
But how can a mortal man be right before God?

Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

He translateth the mountains, before they be aware, and overthroweth them in his wrath.

See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do bow before him.

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.

So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty
and argue my case before God.

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.

For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.

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“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];
Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me?

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

"For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him;

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;
He flees in haste from its power.

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness;

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,
and days of suffering have seized me.

When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.

My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door.

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before LORD, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

“He breaks mighty men without inquiry,
And sets others in their place.

The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But if they will not obey, they shall go through the sword, and perish before they be aware.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!