And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

and they of Sheba fell upon them and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.

The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

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

From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

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

At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.

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

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!

The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.

So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.

Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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

They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

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

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.

That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.

Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;

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

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

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

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: --

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants of the earth: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.

He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

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

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief --

They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

Indeed, no prayer availeth when he stretcheth out his hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.

If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

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

But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more; words failed them.

And I waited, for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more; --

How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.

Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed.

Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.