And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee.

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

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they raised their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

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

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

Will they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught.

Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thy iniquity deserveth.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the expiration of the breath.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens shall be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!

Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.

After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.

They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.