because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors –

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

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

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?

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, “The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants – it has consumed them! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

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.