I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.