His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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,

Satan Attacks Job's Health

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

Job Laments His Birth

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

“Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.

that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?