And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

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

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

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.

But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

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.

Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

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

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

And Job again took up the word and said,

Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

And Job again took up the word and said,

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

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

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

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

Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

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.