His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my so

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

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

Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance?

Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?

When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.

so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.

If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.

Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.

I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?

Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,

For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.

[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,

so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,

whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

[so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.

I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.

The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.

The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.

For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me.

The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door--

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

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his anger was kindled.

Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, while ye searched out what to say.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.

Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

[Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.