Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.

I was not at ease, neither had I quiet, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were older than he.

When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they consoled him, and comforted him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.