His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,
when deep sleep descends on men,

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.
He looks for a home among the stones.

the land was given to them alone
when no foreigner passed among them.

But come back and try again, all of you.
I will not find a wise man among you.

He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

They bray among the shrubs;
they huddle beneath the thistles.

They die in their youth;
their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

Will traders bargain for him
or divide him among the merchants?