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

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, 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. Thus did Job continually.

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 unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses 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?

Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

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

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

And he hath 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.

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

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

That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto 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 cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Oh 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 children were about me;

When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

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

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

Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

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

Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain,'she is without fear;

His underparts are like'sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

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