If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."

[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

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?

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

Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.

So Yahweh {asked} 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. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

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.

{Afterward} Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

Thus Job {spoke up} and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.

Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he [was] righteous in his [own] eyes.

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you.

"But now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words.

"Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

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

What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

'Job speaks without knowledge, and his words [are] without insight.

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

{therefore} Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."

"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.

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

Then Yahweh answered Job and said,

So Job answered Yahweh and said,

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

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].

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.

And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his {grandsons} [for] four generations.

Then Job died old and full of days.

And if [even] the three of these men were in the midst of it--Noah, Daniel, and Job--they, through their righteousness, would save [only] {themselves}!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

and [if] Noah, Daniel, and Job [were] in the midst of her, {as surely as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "surely not son, surely not daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save {themselves}."