And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped;

And Jehovah said to Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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

And a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up --

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.

At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

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

+God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:

Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,

Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;

Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto +God:

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,

But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

Aye, my heart trembleth at this also, and leapeth up out of its place:

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?

And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

Gird up now thy loins like a man: I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?

The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: they are beside themselves with consternation.

And now, take for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, for ye have not spoken of me rightly, like my servant Job.