His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, 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 cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

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 said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

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.

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.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

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

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

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

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: