And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.