And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee."

In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee."

and suddenly there came a mighty great wind out of the South, and smote the four corners of the house: which fell upon thy children, so that they are dead, and I alone am gotten away, to tell thee."

Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air.

They sat them down by him also upon the ground seven days and seven nights. Neither was there any of them that spake one word unto him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?

There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor.

and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.

For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.

With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away.

How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?

They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.

Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'

that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them;

Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand;

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them.

When their time cometh, they shall be destroyed and perish: and when they be set on fire, they shall be removed out of their place,

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

Confounded are they that put any confidence in them: For when they came to obtain the things that they looked for, they were brought to confusion.

They shall show thee, they shall tell thee, yea they will gladly confess the same.

Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

He translateth the mountains, before they be aware, and overthroweth them in his wrath.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.

Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Speak to the earth, and it shall show thee; or to the fishes of the sea, and they shall certify thee.

Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth.

He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea:

Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.

They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me.

All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

O that my words were written, O that they were put in a book:

would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.

yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.

They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure.

They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.

Their own destruction and misery shall they see with their eyes, and drink of the fearful wrath of the Almighty.

Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

They reap the corn field that is not their own; and let the vineyard of the ungodly alone.

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

insomuch that they let him go naked without clothing, and take way the sheaf of the hungry.

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.

In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.

For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.

They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.

Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel.

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.

When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.

When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle,

Upon my right hand they rose together against me; they have hurt my feet, made a way to destroy me,

and my path have they clean marred. It was so easy for them to do me harm, that they needed no man to help them.

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.

Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds -

'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.