Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

a trembling gripped me -- and a terror! -- and made all my bones shake.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

You will call and I -- I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

"Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights.

"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter --

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

Of coral and jasper no mention will be made; the price of wisdom is more than pearls.

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow's heart rejoice;

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

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

when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

"Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.