His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

And Elihu went on to say,

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.