Satan Allowed to Test Job

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Satan Takes Job's Property and Children

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Job's Three Friends

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

“Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.

“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid.

“But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.

Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.

“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.

“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

Elihu Rebukes Job

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,

“And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”