They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!

"Were you the first personto be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.

Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors.

"For when they're humbled, you may respond; "It's their pride!' but he delivers the humble.

Behold, even the moon isn't bright, and the stars aren't pure in his eyes.

The proud beasts haven't walked there; lions have never passed over it.

The fires of Abaddon will burn, disrupting every part of my eternal reward."

turning a person from his actions, keeping him from pride,

"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not?

Do you understand the breadth of the earth? Tell me, since you know it all!

dispensed the fury of your anger, made sure that you have humbled every proud person,

stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

His protective scales are his pride, they lie sealed tightly together.

He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride."

Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the LORD had brought and placed on him. Some gave him gold bullion and some brought gold earrings.

The LORD blessed Job during the latter part of his life more than the former, since he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.