Lexicon :: Strong's G1161 - de

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

“the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

“Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

“Skin for skin! ” Satan answered the LORD. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

“But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

“Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

So Satan left the LORD’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ”

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[fn]

Now when Job’s three friends ​— ​Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ​— ​heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

Why was I not stillborn;

why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

Why did the knees receive me,

and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

Now I would certainly be lying down in peace;

I would be asleep.

Then I would be at rest

The captives are completely at rest;

they do not hear a taskmaster’s voice.

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,

and life to those whose existence is bitter,

who are filled with much joy

and are glad when they reach the grave?

I sigh when food is put before me,[fn]

and my groans pour out like water.

I cannot relax or be calm;

I have no rest, for turmoil has come.

Should anyone try to speak with you

when you are exhausted?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

But now that this has happened to you,

you have become exhausted.

It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

In my experience, those who plow injustice

and those who sow trouble reap the same.

They perish at a single blast from God

and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,

but the teeth of young lions are broken.

The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,

and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

A word was brought to me in secret;

my ears caught a whisper of it.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,

when deep sleep comes over men,

fear and trembling came over me

and made all my bones shake.

I felt a draft[fn] on my face,

and the hair on my body stood up.

If God puts no trust in his servants

and he charges his angels with foolishness,[fn]

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed like a moth!

For anger kills a fool,

and jealousy slays the gullible.

I have seen a fool taking root,

but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

His children are far from safety.

They are crushed at the city gate,

with no one to rescue them.

The hungry consume his harvest,

even taking it out of the thorns.[fn]

The thirsty[fn] pant for his children’s wealth.

But humans are born for trouble

as surely as sparks fly upward.

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God

and would present my case to him.

He traps the wise in their craftiness

so that the plans of the deceptive

are quickly brought to an end.

They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

He saves the needy from their sharp words[fn]

and from the clutches of the powerful.

So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts its mouth.

See how happy is the person whom God corrects;

so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.