Now upon a time, when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan came also among them.

Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,

Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted.

Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways?

But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God:

The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid.

Why dost thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness? Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone."

If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

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.

"If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him;

"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.

Behold, now have I prepared my judgment, and know that I shall be found righteous.

But now that God hath sent me adversity, thou hast troubled all my congregation.

Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.

From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.

One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;

Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high,

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;

In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.

Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.

But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

"Now hast thou spoken in mine ears, and I have heard the voice of thy words:

Now if there be a messenger, one among a thousand sent for to speak unto man, and to show him the right way;

"If thou now have understanding, hear what I say, and hearken to the voice of my words.

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,

I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes.

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.