Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

Call, I pray thee - is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?

Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:

One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food.

A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, - -Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.

And, a man himself, as a rotten thing, weareth out, as a garment which the moth hath eaten.

Which, wise men, tell, and deny not that which is from their fathers.

When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

For he hath oppressed - hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

The path of the ancient time, wilt thou mark, which the men of iniquity trod?

I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

He hath built, like a moth, his house, - like a hut, which a watcher hath made.

A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;

With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.

GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;

Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?

Behold, I pray thee, the Hippopotamus, which I made with thee, Grass - like the ox, he eateth;

Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, - and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, - and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.