It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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." Job did so continually.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

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

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

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

He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

"If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

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

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Job again took up his parable, and said,

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Job again took up his parable, and said,

when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Elihu also continued, and said,

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.