<p class="poetry">Scatter abroad<n id="1" /> the abundance<n id="2" /> of your anger.p> <p class="poetry">Look at every proud man<n id="3" /> and bring him low;p>

<p class="poetry">Look at every proud man and abase him;p> <p class="poetry">crush the wicked on the spot!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I know that you can do all things;p> <p class="poetry">no purpose of yours can be thwarted;p>

<p class="poetry">And you put my feet in the stocks<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you watch all my movements;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you put marks<n id="3" /> on the soles of my feet.p>

<p class="poetry">If a man dies, will he live again?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the days of my hard service<n id="2" /> I will wait<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until my release comes.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">All his days<n id="1" /> the wicked man suffers torment,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">throughout the number of the yearsp> <p class="poetry">that<n id="3" /> are stored up for the tyrant.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a fire which has not been kindled<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will consume himp> <p class="poetry">and devour what is left in his tent.p>

<p class="poetry">The clods of the torrent valley<n id="1" /> are sweet to him;p> <p class="poetry">behind him everybody follows in procession,p> <p class="poetry">and before him goes a countless throng.p>

<p class="poetry">For he looks to the ends of the earthp> <p class="poetry">and observes everything under the heavens.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed, God does all these things,p> <p class="poetry">twice, three times, in his dealings<n id="2" /> with a person,p>

<p class="poetry">The clouds<n id="1" /> go round in circles,p> <p class="poetry">wheeling about according to his plans,p> <p class="poetry">to carry out<n id="2" /> all that he commands themp> <p class="poetry">over the face of the whole inhabited world.p>

<p class="poetry">(Who has confronted<n id="1" /> me that I should repay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Everything under heaven belongs to me!)<n id="3" />p>

Have you<n id="1" /> not made a hedge<n id="2" /> around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed<n id="3" /> the work of his hands, and his livestock<n id="4" /> have increased<n id="5" /> in the land.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> restored what Job had lost<n id="2" /> after he prayed for his friends,<n id="3" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> doubled<n id="4" /> all that had belonged to Job.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined<n id="1" /> with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the <sc>Lordsc> had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver<n id="2" /> and a gold ring.<n id="3" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the days of their feasting were finished,<n id="2" /> Job would send<n id="3" /> for them and sanctify<n id="4" /> them; he would get up early<n id="5" /> in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to<n id="6" /> the number of them all. For Job thought, &#8220;Perhaps<n id="7" /> my children<n id="8" /> have sinned and cursed<n id="9" /> God in their hearts.&#8221; This was Job&#8217;s customary practice.<n id="10" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;All right then,<n id="1" /> everything he has is<n id="2" /> in your power.<n id="3" /> Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!&#8221;<n id="4" /> So Satan went out<n id="5" /> from the presence of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Job&#8217;s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country<n id="2" /> &#8211; Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.<n id="3" /> They met together<n id="4" /> to come to show sympathy<n id="5" /> for him and to console<n id="6" /> him.