His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.