The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

"How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

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

"Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.