“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

“How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.