And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?

Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

And the Sabeans fell on and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

And, behold, a great wind came from the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn.

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

I was not in safety, nor did I have rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble comes.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong.

Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

Behold this: we have searched it; it is so. Hear it and know for yourself.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!

And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,

Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray.

I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?

If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has cast them away for their transgression,

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen you.

They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around; yet You destroy me.

Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?

Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit.

And these have You hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You.

Why then have You brought me from the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!

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

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?

Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall have a desire to the work of Your hands.

Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

I will show you; hear me; and what I have seen I will declare,

that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters.

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer?

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.

They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin and thrust my horn in the dust.

Oh earth, do not cover my blood, and let not my cry have a place.

For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister!

He shall have neither son nor kinsman among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me.

My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

I have heard the rebuke meant to shame me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

Rise with me and I shall speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Do you keep to the old way which wicked men have walked?

For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

For they have humiliated you, and you shall say, Pride! And He shall save the lowly of eyes.

My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away;

nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.

How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm that has no strength?

How have you advised those not wise, or fully declared wise plans?

To whom have you spoken words? And whose spirit came from you?

Behold, all you have seen it yourselves; why then do you become completely vain?

the sons of pride have not walked on it, the lion has not passed by.

The place of ruin and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.

sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.

They have broken down my path, they gain by my trouble; they have no helper.

Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.

And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it,

if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;

if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied the God above.

also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;

if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,

that you do not say, We have found out wisdom. God has pushed him down, not man.