Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

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.

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.

If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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

With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

“Behold this; we have investigated it, and it is true.
Hear and heed it, and know for yourself [for your own good].”

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare, - That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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

So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless."

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

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; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

Thou hast granted me life, and done me good: and the diligent heed that thou tookest upon me hath preserved my spirit.

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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

Zophar from Naamath had this to say:

And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

then you will hold your head high, free from fault.
You will be firmly established and unafraid.

"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!

Hear, I pray you, the argument of my mouth, and, to the pleadings of my lips, give heed: -

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

“Why are we regarded as beasts,
As if [we are] stupid (senseless) in your eyes?

A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back, - yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him - terrors:

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

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

Who had been saying unto GOD, Depart from us! and - What can the Almighty do for himself?

Yet, he, had filled their houses with good! The counsel of the lawless, then, is far from me:

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth.

Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?

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

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

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;
He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not.

He hath built, like a moth, his house, - like a hut, which a watcher hath made.

"While the ground produces food, underneath it is torn up and burning hot,

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

"Whenever I went out to the city gate, a seat had been reserved for me in the plaza.

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

The voice the leaders hid, and their tongue was joined to their palate.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.