Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.

He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.

If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, [saying], 'I have never seen you.'

[He is the one] who shakes [the] earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.

"But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help.

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

Surely these [are] the dwellings of [the] godless, and this [is] the dwelling place of him [who] knows not God."

[The] eye [that] saw him {will not see him again}, and his place will no longer behold him.

Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place {for gold to be refined}.

Its stones [are the] place of sapphire, and [the] earthen dirt {has} gold.

"But from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out [as] its price.

Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

"God understands its way, and he knows its place,

let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.

He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is full of fatness.

You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.

"Moreover, {can anyone understand} [the] spreading of clouds, [the] thundering of his dwelling place?

He covers [his] hands [with] lightning, and he commands it the place at [which] to strike.

"About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place.

"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

Under [the] lotus tree it lies, in [the] hiding place of [the] reeds and [in the] marsh.