Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.

So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

[Those] who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."

" 'Yet you hid these [things] in your heart; I know that this {was your purpose}.

If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

And [if my head] grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

"Only you must not do [these] two [things] to me; then I will not hide from your face:

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.

Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,

"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.

Would he contend with me in [the] greatness of [his] strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me.

They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together.

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.

{Have the people of my tent not said}, '{O that} someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

{Have I concealed} my transgressions as [other] human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.

There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.

[You] whose garments [are] hot, when [the] earth is being still because of [the] south wind,

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave.

Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears?

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

{And he had} seven sons and three daughters.