There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Haven't you 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 substance is increased in the land.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came 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 to comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

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

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

"If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

"Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?