His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

Moreover, the strength of their hands -- what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler --

"If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature -- let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

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

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

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

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

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.