and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, 'Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, "A lightning storm struck and incinerated the flock and the servants while they were eating. I alone escaped to tell you!"

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”

They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster.

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver.

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

Who doeth great things, beyond all search, - Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

For with the stones of the field they covenant, and the beast of the field was at peace with thee.

O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.

There is no help within me, is there? My resources have been driven away from me, haven't they?

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Filled with waters made cold by ice, they are where the snow goes to hide.

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

"Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?

So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

“The earth is given into the hands of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blind to justice].
If it is not He, then who is it [that is responsible for all this injustice]?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do?
They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

They are longer than the earth's circumference, and broader than the ocean.

For thou shalt forget toil, then shalt remember as waters they passed away.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Who can oppose me? If they do, I'll be silent and die.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea:

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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

"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,

All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

“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].

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

“He is torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of terrors.

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,