Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

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 tore every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come into it.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,

But now it is come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the holy ones will you turn?

He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall find nothing amiss.

You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Lo this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

For now you are nothing; you see my terror, and are afraid.

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

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

The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?

Who removes the mountains, and they know not: who overturns them in his anger.

Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

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

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.

And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.

Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

No doubt you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.

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

For now you number my steps: do not watch over my sin.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

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

His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.

Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.

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

For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Be yourselves afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.

Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon the earth,

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

There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

God lays up his iniquity for his children: he recompenses him, and he shall know it.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their evidences,

And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.

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

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

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

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

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.

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

He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, but no man is sure of life.

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

How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the falcon's eye has not seen:

No mention shall be made of coral, or of crystal: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

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