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.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

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

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

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

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable 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 rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

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

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

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

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

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake 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 thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

And the LORD turned the captivity 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 bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring 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 she asses.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.