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Job 25:1-6

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 “Dominion and fear are with God;
    he makes peace in his high heaven.
3 Is there any number to his armies?
    Upon whom does his light not arise?
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?
5 If even the moon is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his sight,
6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
    and a human being, who is a worm!”

Job 26:1-14

1 Then Job answered:
2 “How you have helped one who has no power!
    How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have counseled one who has no wisdom,
    and given much good advice!
4 With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose spirit has come forth from you?
5 The shades below tremble,
    the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol is naked before God,
    and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches out Zaphon over the void,
    and hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not torn open by them.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
    and spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has described a circle on the face of the waters,
    at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble,
    and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 By his power he stilled the Sea;
    by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
13 By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways;
    and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?” 

The Book of Job: (Un)Friended

So, one day Job and his three friends, Eliphas, Bildad, and Zophar were all stranded on a deserted island. They were dehydrated, starving, and starting to get desperate, when Eliphaz discovered an old lamp sticking out of the sand. When he picked it up and brushed off the dirt, a Genie appeared, and offered to grant each one of them one wish. Zophar went first, and wished that the Genie might return him to his home and his family. Poof! Zophar's wish was granted. Bildad (who was very hungry) said, "Forget home--I wish that I were at Luby's with a fully stocked breakfast buffet!" And poof! Bildad's wish was granted. Eliphaz, the wisest of the friends, then made his wish, to be taken to a land of unlimited food, water and other resources, a land where there was no sickness or famine, where he might be nursed back to health and waited on hand and foot for the rest of his days. Poof! The Genie granted him his wish. Finally, it was Job's turn. He looked around at the now *very* deserted island, paused in the quiet and stillness for a few moments and then said. It sure is lonely here now. I kind of wish my friends were back with me again...