"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

When people are brought low and you say 'Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast;

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

a hidden path no bird of prey knows -- no falcon's eye has spotted it.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans --

I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

But now, the sun cannot be looked at -- it is bright in the skies -- after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?

Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud."

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.