It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that 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 renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

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

In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.

After my words they did not speak again. My speech fell on them.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They did not reject the light of my face.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion.

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.