His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

And it will be that the days of drinking went round, and Job will send and consecrate them, and he rose early in the morning and brought up burnt-offerings for the number of them all: for Job said, Perhaps my sons sinned, and blessed God in their hearts. Thus did Job all the days.

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.

“He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.

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

Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.

My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.

Confounded are they that put any confidence in them: For when they came to obtain the things that they looked for, they were brought to confusion.

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

"How long wilt thou talk of such things? How long shall thy mouth speak so proud words?

“Will they (the fathers) not teach you and tell you,
And utter words from their hearts [the deepest part of their nature]?

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me.

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

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

And show you the secrets of wisdom!
For sound wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

His length exceedeth the length of the earth, and his breadth the breadth of the sea.

“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;

“He pours contempt on princes and nobles
And loosens the belt of the strong [disabling them].

Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,

For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shall take part against the hypocrite.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Be ye afraid - on your part - of the face of the sword, because, wrath, bringeth the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

“Though his pride reaches the heavens
And his head touches the clouds,

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him.

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

"How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath!

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

When they are humiliated, {you say}, '[It is] pride,' for he saves {the humble}.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

"Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly; and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

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

Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

{A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land.

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

At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

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

“If I have despised and rejected the claim of my male or female servants
When they filed a complaint against me,

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

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?

From whose womb came forth the ice? and the hoarfrost of the heavens, who brought it forth?

Hast thou brought the seven stars together? Or art thou able to loose the bands of Orion?

Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

“She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;
Though her labor is in vain because she is unconcerned [for the safety of her brood],