And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?

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

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,

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

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

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

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

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

The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

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.

Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

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

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

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.