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

Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver.

“I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,
And I am not at rest, and yet trouble still comes [upon me].”

“They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water];
They came there and were ashamed.

‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not existed;
[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’

“Why are we regarded as beasts,
As if [we are] stupid (senseless) in your eyes?

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;
He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

“I smiled at them when they did not believe,
And they did not diminish the light of my face.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

If I gloated and rejoiced because my wealth was great,
And because my [powerful] hand [alone] had obtained so much,

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were years older than he.

“For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]?
What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

“I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear,
But now my [spiritual] eye sees You.

It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him over all the [distressing] adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him a piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

He had seven sons and three daughters.