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.

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

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

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

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.”

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.

Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?