And Jehovah said to Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;

And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.

And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.

And Job answered and said,

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.

And Job answered and said,

Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

And Job answered and said,

Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?

It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

And Job answered and said,

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --

And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

And Job answered and said,

I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?

Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

And Job answered and said,

He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

And Job answered and said,

Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.

And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?

And Job answered and said,

Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

And Job answered and said,

And Job continued his parable and said,

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

And Job continued his parable and said,

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.

I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

Moreover Elihu answered and said,

For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

For hath he said unto God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;

Moreover Elihu answered and said,

And Elihu proceeded and said,

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?

And Jehovah answered Job and said,

And Job answered Jehovah and said,

And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?

And Job answered Jehovah and said,

And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:

I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; I this day have begotten thee.

I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set themselves against me round about.

But know that Jehovah hath set apart the pious man for himself: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.

{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight.

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

Thou my soul hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; --

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.