So Yahweh said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil."

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

Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him} {on every side}? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.

While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants {by the edge of the sword}, but I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

At the time this one was speaking, {another} came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "From where have you come?" And Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "{All right}, he [is] in your {power}. Only spare his life."

{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse} God and die."

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

Then they sat with him on the ground [for] seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that {his} suffering was very great.

Thus Job {spoke up} and said,

"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety.

Then Job answered and said,

Is it because I have said, 'Give to me,' or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?

Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

Then Job answered and said,

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,

Then Job answered and said,

[The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

[Those] who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?'

Then Job answered and said,

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and {said},

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

{Have the people of my tent not said}, '{O that} someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you.

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

Thus Elihu {spoke up} and said,

for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.

If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,

Moreover, Elihu {spoke up} and said,

Then Elihu continued and said,

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is full of fatness.

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors,

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

Then Yahweh answered Job and said,

So Job answered Yahweh and said,

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

"Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].