And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.

And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?

He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them.

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.

And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

(Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)

The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.