Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Complaints of, and Replies by his Three Friends To

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

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Then Job replied:

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then Job answered:

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Then Job answered:

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

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Then Job answered:

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then Job answered:

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Then Job answered:

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Then Job answered:

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then Job answered:

Job continued his discourse:

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

And Job continued his discourse:

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Then Elihu continued:

And Elihu went on to say:

And Elihu continued:

“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.