His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.