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.

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.

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 

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted ¹  Job with a malignant ulcer ²  from the sole of his feet to the top of his head. ³ 

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job. ¹ 

So the Lord ¹  restored what Job had lost ²  after he prayed for his friends, ³  and the Lord doubled ⁴  all that had belonged to Job.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.