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Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job answered:

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Then Job answered,

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Job answered,

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Then Job answered,

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Then Job answered,

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Job answered,

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

Then Job answered,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Then Job answered,

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Job answered,

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.