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.
[12] 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 heaven.
[13] 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.

Job.3

[1] After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
[2] And Job spake, and said,
[3] Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
[4] Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
[5] Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
[6] 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.
[7] Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
[8] Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
[9] 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:
[10] Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
[11] Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
[12] Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
[13] For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
[14] With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
[15] Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
[16] Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
[17] There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
[18] There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
[19] The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
[20] Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
[21] Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
[22] Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
[23] Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
[24] For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
[25] For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
[26] I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Job.4

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
[2] If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
[3] Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
[4] Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
[5] But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
[6] Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
[7] Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
[8] Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
[9] By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
[10] The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
[11] The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
[12] Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
[13] In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
[14] Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
[15] Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
[16] It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
[17] Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
[18] Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
[19] How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
[20] They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
[21] Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.