The Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

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, Eli′phaz the Te′manite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na′amathite. They made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him.

That night—let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes.”

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

For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;

You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and come to their end without hope.

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.