And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day, and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

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.

There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.

What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.

Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

[He] who removes the mountains, and they do not know it when he overturns them in his anger,

Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,

that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!

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

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

They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.

They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

[so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.

They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.

He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them.

And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.

They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,

so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.

[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.

Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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

As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].

Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.

They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.

And shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart, and that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways,

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

They die in youth, and their life [perishes] among the unclean.

and it is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the habitable world.