After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day,

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

"If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door:

Reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing?

Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?

He maketh the path to be seen after him, and the deep is his walking place.

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.