Haven't you 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 substance is increased in the land.

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

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

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

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Oh that I knew where I might find him. That I might come even to his seat.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

For God has made my heart faint. Shaddai has terrified me.

"Why aren't times made known by Shaddai? Why do not those who know him see his days?

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, Shaddai, who has made my soul bitter.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

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

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

"See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.