His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

They sat them down by him also upon the ground seven days and seven nights. Neither was there any of them that spake one word unto him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

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

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

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,

Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in.

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

the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner.

Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight.

Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

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.

The very pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

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.

For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Job, that he called himself just before God.

May he be made whole, that loveth no right? If thou were a very innocent man, shouldest thou then be punished?