When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.

Or with princes who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.

“They were disappointed for they had trusted,
They came there and were confounded.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
Or that the needy had no covering,

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

“Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my signature;
Let the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment which my adversary has written,

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.

Because they turned aside from following Him,
And had no regard for any of His ways;

“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

He had seven sons and three daughters.