Now upon a time, when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan came also among them.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

It happened also upon a time, that when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan also came among them, and stood before him.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

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,

And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

So man lies down and does not rise [again].
Until the heavens are no longer,
The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness [against me];
And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,
It testifies to my face [about my guilt].

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”

“They fully enjoy their days in prosperity,
And so go down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) in a [peaceful] moment.

Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, neither can silver he weighed as the value thereof;

As it stood with me, when I was young, when God prospered my house;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children stood about me;

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Who ruleth the earth in his stead? Or whom hath he set to govern the whole world?

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

He strikes them {where the wicked stood}, {where there are onlookers},

Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].

that he letteth himself be driven forth like a grasshopper, whereas the stout neighing that he maketh, is fearful?

And Jehovah blessed the latter state of Job more than his beginning: and there will be to him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.