²⁵ For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

⁵ And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

¹⁵ Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.