Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

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

But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch {all that belongs to him} [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

It happened also upon a time, that when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan also came among them, and stood before him.

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

But lay thine hand upon him, touch him once upon the bone and flesh, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Behold him! in thy hand, - only, his life, preserve thou!

And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him,

Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:

Shall a man be just above God? If a man shall be pure above him making him?

As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:

"Will the wild donkey bray from hunger if fresh grass is beside him? Will the ox low from distress if it is near its feed?

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

For him that is fainting kindness is meet from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

“He will not return again to his house,
Nor will his place know him anymore.

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,

That You examine him every morning
And try him every moment?

“If your sons sinned against Him,
Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.

If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;

He leaneth him upon his house, but he shall not stand; he holdeth him fast by it, yet shall he not endure.

“If he is removed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

“If one wished to dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

“Wise in heart and mighty in strength,
Who has defied Him without harm?

Him that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;

“Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him;
Were He to move past me, I would not perceive Him.

“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

“God will not turn back His anger;
Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

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.

“If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

“Let Him remove His rod from me,
And let not dread of Him terrify me.

“Then I would speak and not fear Him;
But I am not like that in myself.

[Are] not my days few? Let him leave [me] alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him?

“If He passes by or shuts up,
Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?

For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider.

If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

Then, indeed, you could lift up your face [to Him] without moral defect,
And you would be firmly established and secure and not fear.

A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

“Will you show partiality for Him?
Will you contend for God?

Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

“Will not His majesty terrify you,
And the dread of Him fall on you?

“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

“You also open Your eyes on him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.

If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.

Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

Thou prevailest over him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.

Only -- his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him doth mourn.'

But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.