Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

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

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.