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.

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 he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

And he took himself a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes.

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my sin and guilt?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”

He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

"Shouldn't a multitude of words be answered, or a person who talks too much be vindicated?

Just as ye know, I too, know, I, fall not short, of you.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

"For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins.

Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee?

Are the consolations of God too small for you? on the word that deals gently with you?

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

Others were astonished at his day, and the ancient took hold on shuddering.

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

And when I remembered and trembled, and horror took hold of my flesh.

"Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too?

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf;

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

When I went out to the city gate
and took my seat in the town square,

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

The one who made me in the womb made them, too, didn't he? Didn't the same one prepare each of us in the womb?"

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

Therefore I say, “Listen to me.
I too will declare what I know.”

I too will answer;
yes, I will tell what I know.

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

Therefore, thou needest not be afraid of me, neither needest thou to fear that my authority shall be too heavy for thee.

Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not?

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.