and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath [is] in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.

In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.

And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.

And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

`Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?

In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.

And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,

And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.

Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

High they were [for] a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all [others] they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.