“With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

“Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights.

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

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.