that ¹  Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding. ² 

So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; ¹  without knowledge he multiplies words.”

“Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: ² 

Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:

When ¹  the days of their feasting were finished, ²  Job would send ³  for them and sanctify ⁴  them; he would get up early ⁵  in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to ⁶  the number of them all. For Job thought, “Perhaps ⁷  my children ⁸  have sinned and cursed ⁹  God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.

So now take ¹  seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede ²  for you, and I will respect him, ³  so that I do not deal with you ⁴  according to your folly, ⁵  because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.” ⁶ 

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God? ¹ 

and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing ¹  and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Then Job got up ¹  and tore his robe. ²  He shaved his head, ³  and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground. ⁴ 

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety. ¹ 

After this Job opened his mouth ²  and cursed ³  the day he was born. ⁴ 

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” ¹  The words of Job are ended.

So these three men refused to answer ²  Job further, because he was righteous in his ³  own eyes.

With Job’s ¹  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ²  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ³ 

Now Elihu had waited before speaking ¹  to Job, because the others ²  were older than he was.

Now I was paying you close attention, ¹  yet ²  there was no one proving Job wrong, ³  not one of you was answering his statements!

But ¹  Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he ¹  said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up ²  against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, ³  as my servant Job has.

² There was a man ³  in the land of Uz ⁴  whose ⁵  name was Job. ⁶  And that man was pure ⁷  and upright, ⁸  one who feared God and turned away from evil. ⁹