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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.