After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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.

and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

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.

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

“Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.

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.

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

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.