And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped;

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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

Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?

If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --

And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

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

Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

Would he plead against me with his great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

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 aged arose and stood up;

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he.

That he may withdraw man from his work, and hide pride from man.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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

Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:

And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.

And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.