The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" And Satan answered the Lord, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."

And the Lord said to Satan, "Where do you come from?" Satan answered the Lord, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty's mind I will not conceal.

Destruction and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.

If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has."