When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

Or with princes who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.

“When they become waterless, they are silent,
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

“They were disappointed for they had trusted,
They came there and were confounded.

“Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the tent of the wicked will be no longer.”

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

“Only two things do not do to me,
Then I will not hide from Your face:

“Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

“He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.

“Though his loftiness reaches the heavens,
And his head touches the clouds,

“Is not God in the height of heaven?
Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

“They push the needy aside from the road;
The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So does Sheol those who have sinned.

“He has built his house like the spider’s web,
Or as a hut which the watchman has made.

When His lamp shone over my head,
And by His light I walked through darkness;

The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the old men arose and stood.

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
Or that the needy had no covering,

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

“Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my signature;
Let the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment which my adversary has written,

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.

“There is no darkness or deep shadow
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Because they turned aside from following Him,
And had no regard for any of His ways;

“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

You whose garments are hot,
When the land is still because of the south wind?

“Hide them in the dust together;
Bind them in the hidden place.

“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

He had seven sons and three daughters.