All of his powerful and magnificent accomplishments and the detailed account of Mordecai’s great rank to which the king had honored him, have they not been written in the Historical Records of the Kings of Media and Persia?

He had seven sons and three daughters.

Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

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

In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;

Because, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle - in my presence, cast they off;

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

if he hadn't thanked me from the bottom of his heart, if he had not been warmed by wool from my sheep,

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

No stranger had to spend the night on the street,
for I opened my door to the traveler.

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

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 elder than he.

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;

Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,

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

saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.

because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways.

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And , What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

He leaves a shining wake behind him;
one would think the deep had gray hair!

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.