And his sons went and feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.

And the Sabeans fell on and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

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

And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

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

And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

the prisoners are at rest together; they hear not the voice of the slave driver.

They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.

They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.

Is not their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, but not with wisdom.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,

When they become warm, they go away; when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing and are lost.

They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.

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

He who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger;

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

They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds 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 drunkard.

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

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark it.

Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me.

He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.

They set night for day; the light is near in the face of darkness.

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

They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

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

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

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

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he?

Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.

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

They lift up voice at the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.

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

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

they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away.

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

that the wicked is kept for the day of calamity? They shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Is not God high in Heaven? And behold the leading stars, for they are high.

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

For they have humiliated you, and you shall say, Pride! And He shall save the lowly of eyes.

They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed 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 poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked.

They lodge the naked without clothing, and give no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of 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 press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

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

For the morning is to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men which they shall receive from the Almighty.

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

He opens a shaft far from the visitor; they are forgotten by man's foot; they hang far away from men, they swing to and fro.

They listened to me, and waited, and kept silent at my counsel.

After my words they did not go on; and my speech dropped on them.

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

I smiled kindly on them when they did not believe; and they did not make the light of my face fall.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief.

They dwell in the chasms of the valleys, in holes of the earth and in rocks.

They bray among the bushes; they huddle together under the nettles;

sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.

They despise me, and they flee far from me; they do not spare spit from my face.

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.

On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.

They have broken down my path, they gain by my trouble; they have no helper.

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.

Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.

Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the ruin-heap, though they cry in their misfortune.

If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me;

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

And Elihu had waited beside Job with words, because they were older than he in days.

They are broken; they answer no more; words have left them.

Shall I wait because you do not speak, because they stand still, answering no more?

In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed;

His flesh wastes away, not seen; and his bones laid bare; they were not seen.

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

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

because thus they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways;

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.

From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

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