When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming around on the earth and from walking around on it.”

And the adversary will answer Yehovah and say, Did Job fear God gratuitously?

Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.

And LORD said to Satan, From where did thou come? And Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

I was not in safety, nor did I have rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble comes.

Did not their remainder in them remove? They will die, and not in wisdom.

He did great things, and no searching;. and wonders even no number:

frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.

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

Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?

Teach me, and I will be silent.
Help me understand what I did wrong.

Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?

When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

He did great things even not searched out; and wonders even no number.

‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this?

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.

Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

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

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

“There is nothing left of what he devoured;
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

Did ye not ask them passing over the way? and shall ye not know their signs?

Who shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did?

Did it please to the Almighty that thou wilt be just? and if gain if thou wilt perfect thy ways?

which said unto God, 'Go from us.' And what did the Almighty do with them?

Saying , Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.

He did evil to the barren; she will not bear: andhewill not do good to the widow.

To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

Abaddon and death said, "We did hear a rumor about it.'

Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out;

The voice of nobles, was hushed, and their tongue to their palate, did cleave;

“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.

“After my words they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped on them.

“I smiled on them when they did not believe,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.

I cried to You, and You did not hear me; I stood up, and You did not consider me.

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me.

Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: -

If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;

Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand?

Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

"Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

But he did not direct [his] words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Forasmuch, as they turned from following him, and, none of his ways, did they teach;

Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.

“Behold now, Behemoth, which I created as well as you;
He eats grass like an ox.

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

After these words had been spoken by the LORD to Job, the LORD spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: "My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven't spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job.

So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job."

So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamath did precisely as the LORD had spoken to them, because the LORD showed favor to Job.

Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, - and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, - and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.