For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.

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.

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

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.