And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?

Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

And his wife said to him, Do you still hold to your integrity? Curse God and die!

And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe, and they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Heaven.

And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.

Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

To him who is afflicted, pity is due from his friend, but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.

He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

What is man, that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,

and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?

If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has cast them away for their transgression,

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen you.

If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.

Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.

How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my arguments with Him?

For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment;

Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear make me afraid;

then would I speak and not fear Him; for it is not so with me.

If He passes through and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can turn Him back?

If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands toward Him;

I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;

a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.

With Him is wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding.

With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?

Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.

But his flesh is pained within him; and his soul mourns over him.

A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.

Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

He runs at him, with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

The steps of his strength shall be hampered, and his own plans shall throw him down.

The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him.

The pitfall is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall dash him at his feet.

His memory shall perish from the earth, and there is no name to him on the face of the street.

They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

Those after him shall be amazed at his day; and those before were seized with horror.

I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth.

For you ought to say, Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me?

he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he?

An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down with him in the dust.

yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him.

It shall happen at the filling of his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath on him, and He shall rain on him while he is eating.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, a bow of bronze shall pierce him.

One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him.

All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth rise up against him.

what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.

For what is his pleasure in his house after him, and the number of his months is cut off?

Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?

And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as there is no numbering of those before him.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous, or gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?

Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks in the circuit of Heaven.

Now be of service with Him, and be at peace. Good shall come to you by them.

You shall make your prayer to Him, and He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.

Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!

I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot see Him;

on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him. He turns to the right, but I do not see Him.

But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? Yea, what His soul desires, He does it.

For He fulfilled my lot, and many things like these are with Him.

Therefore I am troubled at His presence; when I look, I am afraid of Him.

Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.

He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Rule and fear are with Him; He makes peace in His high places.

Hell is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.

Lo, these are the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; for it whirls him out of his place.

For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; he will surely flee out of its hand.

He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor?

what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb?

If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him;

I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would go near Him.