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Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

And they sat with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights, - and none was speaking unto him a word, for they saw that, exceeding great, was the stinging pain.

Darkened be the stars of its twilight, - Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?

Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.

For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, - nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.

For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.

For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;

Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.

For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:

For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage,