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.

and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

“If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”

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

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler –

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?