And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.

And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, "A lightning storm struck and incinerated the flock and the servants while they were eating. I alone escaped to tell you!"

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

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

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was 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 lifted up their voice, and wept; and they tore every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

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

May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”

They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster.

Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?

Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver.

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

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

Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.

Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

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

Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?

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.

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.

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

Does not their excellence which is in them go away? 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.

Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

Who doeth great things, beyond all search, - Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

For with the stones of the field they covenant, and the beast of the field was at peace with thee.

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.

There is no help within me, is there? My resources have been driven away from me, haven't they?

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.

At what time they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.

The paths of their way turn aside; they go nowhere, and perish.

Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

"Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?

So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Lo, thus is it with him that rejoiceth in his own doings: and as for others, they grow out of the earth.

They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.

Who removes the mountains, and they know not: who overturns them in his anger.

“The earth is given into the hands of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blind to justice].
If it is not He, then who is it [that is responsible for all this injustice]?

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

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

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little

And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

They are longer than the earth's circumference, and broader than the ocean.

For thou shalt forget toil, then shalt remember as waters they passed away.

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

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

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

Speak to the earth, and it shall show thee; or to the fishes of the sea, and they shall certify thee.

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

He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

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

Who can oppose me? If they do, I'll be silent and die.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea:

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

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

"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,

All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying.

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

{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their heart prepares deceit.

“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness [against me];
And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,
It testifies to my face [about my guilt].

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

And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

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

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

"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.

“He is torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of terrors.

They shall dwell in his tent, who are none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

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

His troops advance together;
they construct a ramp against me
and camp around my tent.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me.

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

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

All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

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

That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.