“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan told the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Then his wife told him, "Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!"

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

They told God, "Get away from us!' and "What will the Almighty do to them?'

"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'

I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince.

"Has anyone ever really told God, "I've endured, and I won't act corruptly anymore.

“His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence;
The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?

The LORD answered Job from the wind storm and told him:

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.