He had seven sons and three daughters.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.

If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.

For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.

The wadis evaporate in warm weather;
they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water.
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.

If I am wicked, woe to me!
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame
and aware of my affliction.

I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

then you will hold your head high, free from fault.
You will be firmly established and unafraid.

Only grant these two things to me, God,
so that I will not have to hide from Your presence:

Why do You hide Your face
and consider me Your enemy?

If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.

Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

when His lamp shone above my head,
and I walked through darkness by His light!

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigor had left them.

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

Haven’t the members of my household said,
“Who is there who has not had enough to eat at Job’s table?”

No stranger had to spend the night on the street,
for I opened my door to the traveler.

If only I had someone to hear my case!
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.

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

There is no darkness, no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.

He covers His hands with lightning
and commands it to hit its mark.

You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,

Hide them together in the dust;
imprison them in the grave.

Can you fill his hide with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?

He leaves a shining wake behind him;
one would think the deep had gray hair!

I had heard rumors about You,
but now my eyes have seen You.

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah and a gold earring.

He also had seven sons and three daughters.