Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:

With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

Or with rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver:

Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, - when there came - consternation!

So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare, - That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.

They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;

And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

Who had been saying unto GOD, Depart from us! and - What can the Almighty do for himself?

Yet, he, had filled their houses with good! The counsel of the lawless, then, is far from me:

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;

In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;

Because, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle - in my presence, cast they off;

Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!

But, Elihu, had waited for Job with words, because the others were older than he.

By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.

And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

And, Yahweh himself, turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends, - and Yahweh increased all that Job had possessed, unto twice as much.

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.