Chapter 4

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, spoke up and said, If we try to speak with you, will you be grieved? But who can stop himself from talking?

See, you have taught many people, and you have strengthened weak hands. Your words have up held the person that was falling, and you have stregthened the weak kneed.

But now it is come upon you, and you are fainting, it is touching you, and you are worried. Is this what you have feared, what you have put confidence in, what you have hoped in, the righteousness of thy ways?

Bring to rememberance those who perished, that were innocent? or the times when the righteous were cut off?

As I have seen, they that till, evil meditations, and sow wicked works, reap the same. By the blast of God they are destroyed, and by the breath of His nostrils are they consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lion, are broken. The old lion dies for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Now it was brought to me in secret, my ear received a little of this. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when most men are fast asleep. Fear came on me, and a trembling that made all my bones to shake.

Then a spirit passed before my face; my hair stood up:

It stood still, but I could not make out the form, it had taken. It was an image before my eyes, it was quiet, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mere man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

See, he did not trust his servant; and his angels he thought were foolish. How much less for them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is build in the dust, which are destroyed by moths?

They are made desolate from sun up until sundown: they perish for ever without any thought. Doth not their greatness, go away? They die, even without wisdom.

Chapter 3

After the seven days were over Job spoke, and continued speaking on, about the day he was born.

He said, Let the day I was born be no more, and the night which I concieved be ended. Let it be darkness unto God that he may not pay attention to it, let there be no light that would illuminate it. Let the blackness of death take hold upon it; The darkness that is in the day shall cause it to fear. The night shall also be taken over by darkness; Don't let it be in the calender, let it not be even thought of as a day.

See that the night is seperate, let there be no rejoiceing in it. Let them speak ill of it that speak ill of the same day, they who are ready to speak up with deep sorrow. Let the stars of the evening be darkened, let the night look for light, yet even none should be found; Neither let the day dawn. Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Neither did it hide trouble from me.

Why did I not die when I was born? Why did I let my spirit go when I first came out of the belly?

Why did the knees stop me? Why did the breasts allow me to suck?

For by this time I should be able to be still and quiet, I should be sleeping and be at rest, I should be with kings and their advisors, who have built decaying cities for themselves; or with princes that have gold, and have filled their store houses with silver: Or I should be as an secret unintentional birth. I have not been as an infant that never saw the light of day.

There evil people stop troubling others; there the tired find rest. There those that are behind bars find rest together; they do not hear the voice of opression. They that have little sucnificance and those that have been exalted are both there. The servant is free from his master.

Why is light given to him that is in great sorrow, and life unto discontented people. They that long for death, but it does not come; They dig for it more that for hid treasures; They rejoice greatly, and are glad, when they should find the grave.

Why is light given to a man that has his way hid from others, and whom God has traped inside a fence? Fory my exsasperation comes before I eat, and my groanings come out of my mouth as water out of a hose.

The thing that I feared alot is come upon me, and the thing that I was afraid of has reached me.

I was not safe, neither did I have rest, neither was I quiet, yet trouble came.

Verse 2:11-13

Job's three friends heard about all the trouble he was going through and came right away. There was Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They all came together from there own villages and decided on a time to come and mourn with Job and to give comfort to him.

As they were coming down the road they realized that he was un-recognizable. So they began to weep loudly, and they riped their coats, and there dust all over themselves.

Then they came and sat on ther ground next to him for seven days, and seven nights, and they did not say a word. For they realized that he was in great sorrow.

verse 2:7-10

Then Satan went away from the LORD, and hurt Job with terrible open sores from the botom of his feet through the top of his head.

Job reacted by taking a piece of broken potery and scraping his sores, and sitting down in a pile of ashes.

His wife came and said to him, "why do you still hold true to your morals? Let God know that you hate Him, then you can die."

But Job replied,"You are speaking as a foolish woman. What is this? Can we get good from God, and not evil? In everything he said Job did not commit sin.