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

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were finished, 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 cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them:

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

Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

They that come after him shall be astounded at his day, as they that went before were frightened.

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

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

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

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

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

Do you know it, because you were born then? or because the number of your days is great?

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

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