And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, 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 so

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.

Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.

if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,

that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my sons were about me,

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil to me,

[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.

His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it

Thou know, for thou were born then, and the number of thy days is great!

She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear,

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.