When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,

“You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
And you will not be afraid of violence when it comes.

“When they become waterless, they are silent,
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

“When I lie down I say,
‘When shall I arise?’
But the night continues,
And I am continually tossing until dawn.

“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

“It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how,
When He overturns them in His anger;

“An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

“Will it be well when He examines you?
Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?

“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it on him while he is eating.

“Even when I remember, I am disturbed,
And horror takes hold of my flesh.

“For what does he care for his household after him,
When the number of his months is cut off?

“When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence,
And the humble person He will save.

When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

“Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence;
When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

“Will God hear his cry
When distress comes upon him?

“When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters by measure,

When He set a limit for the rain
And a course for the thunderbolt,

“Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God watched over me;

When His lamp shone over my head,
And by His light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the prime of my days,
When the friendship of God was over my tent;

When the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were around me;

When my steps were bathed in butter,
And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,

“For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,

“I smiled on them when they did not believe,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

“If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves
When they filed a complaint against me,

What then could I do when God arises?
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,

“Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men his anger burned.

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
When he is pleased with God.’

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,
That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

“How much less when you say you do not behold Him,
The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

“But the godless in heart lay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.

“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish in their place.

“After it, a voice roars;
He thunders with His majestic voice,
And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

You whose garments are hot,
When the land is still because of the south wind?

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,

When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

When I made a cloud its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,

When the dust hardens into a mass
And the clods stick together?

When they crouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?

“Who prepares for the raven its nourishment
When its young cry to God
And wander about without food?

“When she lifts herself on high,
She laughs at the horse and his rider.

“Can anyone capture him when he is on watch,
With barbs can anyone pierce his nose?

“When he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.