For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?

If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he.

For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:

And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.

And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.