And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, 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 so

And LORD said to Satan, From where do thou come? Then Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.

Then Satan answered LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

And LORD said to Satan, From where did thou come? And Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m

And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.

And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.

Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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

And Job answered and said,

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Then Job answered and said,

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?

What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

Then Job answered and said,

If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,

If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,

Then Job answered and said,

Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Then Job answered, and said,

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.

Then Job answered, and said,

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Then Job answered, and said,

Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?

Then Job answered and said,

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

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

Then Job answered, and said,

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;

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

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Therefore I said, Hearken to me, I also will show my opinion.

If thou can, answer thou me. Set [thy words] in order before me. Stand forth.

Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others

For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].

Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?

That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

Elihu also proceeded, and said,

Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,

and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?

Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not [a man] be cast down even at the sight of him?

Then Job answered LORD, and said,

And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo