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.

or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver.

"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!

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

Filled with waters made cold by ice, they are where the snow goes to hide.

As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.

Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?'

"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

Bury your gold nuggets in the dust, and your source of gold among the stones in a streambed,

and then the Almighty will be your gold and your refined silver.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

They spend the night naked, without clothing, with no covering against the cold.

"Surely there are mines for silver and places where gold is refined.

where stones are sapphire and gold dust can be found,

You can't buy it with gold, and its value cannot be calculated in silver.

It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.

It cannot be compared to gold and fine glass crystal, nor can it be exchanged for gold-plated weaponry.

It can neither be compared with the topaz of Ethiopia nor valued in comparison to pure gold."

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

when his lamp used to shine over my head, so I could walk through the dark,

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.

My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'

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

"Furthermore, can anyone understand cloud patterns, or the thundering in his pavilion?

From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.

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.

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.