Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Then Job answered and said:

Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

Then Job answered and said:

Job Continues: A Plea to God

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job Replies: The Lord Has Done This

Then Job answered and said:

Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God

“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You

Then Job answered and said:

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives

Then Job answered and said:

Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper

Then Job answered and said:

Eliphaz Speaks: Job's Wickedness Is Great

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job Replies: Where Is God?

Then Job answered and said:

Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable

Then Job answered and said:

Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

Job Continues: Where Is Wisdom?

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

Job's Summary Defense

And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

Job's Final Appeal

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends

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

Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

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