His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,
And unfanned fire will devour him;
It will consume the survivor in his tent.

“Even when I remember, I am disturbed,
And horror takes hold of my flesh.

“My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.

“I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach any of my days.

“But you were full of judgment on the wicked;
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?