His livestock included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and many servants. Indeed, the man's stature greatly exceeded that of many people who lived in the East.

Haven't you surrounded him with a fence on all sides, around his house, and around all that he owns? You have blessed everything he puts his hands on and you have increased his livestock in the land.

Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.

When Job's three friends heard all these tragedies that happened to him, they each traveled from their home towns to visit him. Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad came from Shuah, and Zophar came from Naamath. They met together and went to console and comfort him.

Let that day be dark; let God above not care about it; let no light shine over it.

Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.

"Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout.

"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.

In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.

For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me.

It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger.

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

A fear fell upon me, along with trembling that caused all my bones to shake in terror.

"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'

He is always doing great things that cannot be explained, countless awesome deeds.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

You'll know that your home is secure; when you search your possessions, and nothing will be missing.

You'll know that you'll have many children; and that your offspring will be like the grass of the earth.

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

Have I said anything that's unjust? I can discern evil, can't I?"

Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won't go back to seeing good things.

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you keep watching me?

"What is a human being, that you make so much of him; that you set your affections on him,

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.

He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.

He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.

"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

and disclose his wise secrets? After all, there's so much more to understanding. So be aware that God will exact from you less than your sin deserves."

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

You'll be secure, because there is hope; you'll see that you're at rest and safe.

The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.

Who among all of these doesn't know that the LORD's hand made them,

and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

"Look, now! I've prepared my case for court. I know that I'm going to win.

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.

the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?

What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"

"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels.

"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."

"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him.

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body.

"Total darkness has been reserved for his treasures; a fire that has no need to be kindled will devour him and consume whatever remains in his possession.

This is what the wicked person inherits from God; it is the inheritance that God appoints for him."

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

that the wicked person is spared from times of calamity, that he is rescued on the day of wrath?

That's why disaster surrounds you, terror suddenly overwhelms you,

"Will you keep walking on the traditional path that sinners have tread,

In that place, the upright can reason with him; and I'll be acquitted once and for all by my judge."

I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."

That's why I'm terrified at his presence! When I think about it, I'm afraid of him.

As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."

As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners.

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Far be it from me to admit that you're right! I intend to maintain my integrity even if it kills me!

"I'll teach you about the power of God, that which is with the Almighty I won't conceal.

whatever he stores up, the righteous will wear, and the innocent will inherit that silver!

"He has built his house like a moth's cocoon, like a temporary sunshade that a watchman makes.

He will go to bed wealthy, but won't be doing that anymore! When he opens his eyes, it will be gone!

He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.

He has commanded mankind: "To fear the Lord that is wisdom; to move away from evil that is understanding.'"

The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity?

because something as lascivious as that is an iniquity that should be judged.

if I've found joy in great wealth that I own, if I've earned a lot with my own hands,

so that in the depths of my deceived heart I worshipped them with my mouth and hands,

this is also a sin that deserves to be judged, since I would have tried to deceive God above."

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

Have I feared large crowds? Has my family's contempt ever terrified me so that I remained silent and wouldn't go outside?"

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.