²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

¹¹ But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

⁵ But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

¹⁰ And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

¹⁵ Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

³ Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.