Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.

Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.

Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!

They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.

Even he, will be on my side - unto salvation, For, not before his face, shall any impious person come.

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

His sons, come to honour, and he knoweth it not, Or they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not of them.

He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;

When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.

He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back, - yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him - terrors:

Shew thyself to be one with him - I pray thee - and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;

But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?

His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;

Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad-smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.

Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;

Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.

And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?