But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

The Visit of Job’s Friends

When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends (3:1-27:23)

Job Regrets His Birth

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Job spoke up and said:

Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth

“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Job Replies to Eliphaz

Then Job responded:

Job Remonstrates with God

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Bildad’s First Speech to Job

Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said:

Job’s Reply to Bildad

Then Job answered:

Zophar’s First Speech to Job

Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said:

Job’s Reply to Zophar

Then Job answered:

Job Pleads His Cause to God

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

Then Job replied:

Job’s Reply to Bildad

Then Job answered:

Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

“If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Job’s Forsaken State

“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

Job’s Assurance of Vindication

“O that my words were written down! O that they were written on a scroll!

Job’s Reply to Zophar

Then Job answered:

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

Then Job answered:

Job’s Reply to Bildad

Then Job replied:

A Protest of Innocence

And Job took up his discourse again:

III. Job’s Search for Wisdom (28:1-28)

No Known Road to Wisdom

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40)

Job Recalls His Former Condition

Then Job continued his speech:

Job’s Benevolence

“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

Job’s Confidence

“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.