Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

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

Though I am blameless,
I no longer care about myself;
I renounce my life.

You will be confident, because there is hope.
You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

When I think about it, I am terrified
and my body trembles in horror.

They let their little ones run around like lambs;
their children skip about,

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?

Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.

I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned.

I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.

My heart is like unvented wine;
it is about to burst like new wineskins.

Would I lie about my case?
My wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”

Remember that you should praise His work,
which people have sung about.

They swirl about,
turning round and round at His direction,
accomplishing everything He commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.

Who provides the raven’s food
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?

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I cannot be silent about his limbs,
his power, and his graceful proportions.

You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance?”
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.

I had heard rumors about You,
but now my eyes have seen You.

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”