And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Yes, I attended to you, and behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table would be full of fatness.

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness in which there is no man;

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook encompass him.

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold.

He had also seven sons, and three daughters.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.