This man had seven sons, and three daughters.

And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.

Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."

They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

If I had called upon him, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had heard my voice!

Thou hast granted me life, and done me good: and the diligent heed that thou tookest upon me hath preserved my spirit.

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!

Nevertheless, grant me two things, and then will I not hide myself from thee.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height.

He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head.

Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds:

When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.

Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

Out of drops bringeth he great floods together, and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air.

When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

"Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head.

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;

Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,

There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth?

the fens hide him with their shadow, and the willows of the brook cover him round about.

Canst thou fill the net with his skin, or the fish panner with his head?

out of his nostrils there goeth smoke, like as out of a hot seething pot.

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore.

And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.

And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

He had children also, seven sons and three daughters.