Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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

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

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

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

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

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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

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

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

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

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

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

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.