And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

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.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they tore every one his mantle, 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 unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

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

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

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.

Does not their excellence which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

His children 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 in the noonday as in the night.

At what time they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.

The paths of their way turn aside; they go nowhere, and perish.

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

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

They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.

Who removes the mountains, and they know not: who 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 hastens to the prey.

And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as one dying.

The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also 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 lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

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

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

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

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They shall go down to the gates of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

They shall dwell in his tent, who are none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

They that come after him shall be astounded at his day, as they that went before were frightened.

They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

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

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

That the wicked are reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought 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!

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

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed on them.

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

They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

They reap every one his grain in the field: and they gather the vineyard of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

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

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

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry;

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and 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 shall receive of the Almighty.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.

He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants; even in places forgotten of the foot: they are gone away from men, they swing to and fro.

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 mocked them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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

From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and hesitate not to spit in my face.

Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also cast off restraint before me.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry out in his destruction.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.

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

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

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

Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.

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

He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.

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

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.