Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord.

“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

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

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

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.