When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?

“It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance;
A form was before my eyes;
There was silence, then I heard a voice:

"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

At least I could still take comfort and rejoice in unceasing anguish, for I didn't conceal what the Holy One has to say.

“If one wished to dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

“For though I were right, I could not answer;
I would have to implore the mercy of my judge.

“If I called and He answered me,
I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!

That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, - -Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.

“Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
And you would be steadfast and not fear.

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:

That, with a stylus of iron and with lead, for all time - in the rock, they could be graven!

His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness.

Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

"O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

I smiled at them when they had no confidence, and no one could discourage me.

Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

What then could I do when God arises?
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

But when he saw that the three men could not answer Job, he became angry.

Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed, - But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.

"You spoke clearly so I could hear; I've heard what you've said:

His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

Could one who hates justice govern the world?
Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,

Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

No one could find more beautiful women in the whole land than Job's daughters. Their father gave them their inheritance along with their brothers.