5-9:9
Κρίσει θεοῦ πάσχειν πεπεισμένος ὁ Ἰώβ, καὶ φήσας· Ζῇ κύριος ὃς οὕτω με κέκρικεν, τὴν περὶ τῶν. κριμάτων τοῦ θεοῦ σοφίαν ἄληπτον εἶναι ὸμολογεῖ, οὐ μόνον αὐτῷ, ἀλλὰ καὶ παντὶ ἀνθρώπῳ, καὶ τὴν ἐπιστήμην τῆς βουλῆς τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ ἱκανὸν εἶναι παραδέξασθαι τὸν ἐπίγειον τόπον μεμολυσμένον ἁμαρτίαις. ταῦτα ὡς ὡς πρὸς τοὺς φίλους λέγει, τοὺς οἰομένους κατειληφέναι τὴν αἰτίαν δι' ἣν ταῦτα ἔπασχεν
Job, persuaded that he suffered by the judgment of God, and having said, 'As the Lord lives, who has thus judged me,' confesses that the wisdom concerning the judgments of God is incomprehensible—not only to himself, but to every man—and that the earthly place, defiled with sins, is not capable of receiving the knowledge of the counsel of God. These things he says as though addressing his friends, who supposed they had grasped the cause for which he suffered these things.
約伯確信自己是按神的審判受苦，並且說過：「指著那如此審判我的永生主起誓」，他承認神審判中的智慧是人測不透的，不單是對他自己，乃是對所有人；又承認被罪玷污的這地上之處，無力領受神旨意的知識。他說這些話，乃是如同對他的朋友說的，就是那些自以為已查明他為何受這些苦之緣由的人。