And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were ended, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.

They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear;

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.