Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him –

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

And he said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country – Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

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.