Have You not 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 livestock have increased in the land.

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong.

Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me.

who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

there is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around; yet You destroy me.

Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?

With us are both the gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.

I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would spare you.

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!

There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; and the price of wisdom is above rubies.

When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to thunder;

I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb?

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

so that He may turn man from his act, that He might hide pride from man.

When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band,

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the weapons.

Now behold behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox;

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

On earth there is nothing like him, one made without fear.