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And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that [his] anguish was very great.

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.

Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

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

Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?

And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,