Then were they stricken with great astonishment and terror, and fell
to the ground as it were dead; and they rent their clothes and cast
off their armour, and sat down upon the ground. And Elihu lifted up
his voice and took up a lamentation over me, calling to mind all the
glory of my former state, my sheep and oxen, camels and asses, my
golden beds and my jewelled throne, the lamps and perfumes of my
palace, and the beauty of my children, and saying, "Where is now the
glory of thy kingdom?" And when he had ended his lamentation I said,
"Hold your peace and I will tell you."
"My throne is in the region beyond the world, and the glory and
beauty of it is at the right hand of the Father.
"This world shall pass away and the glory of it shall perish, and
they that pay heed thereto shall be overwhelmed in the overthrow of
it; but my throne is in the land of the holy, and the glory of it in
the age that hath no change.
"The rivers shall be dried up, and the abundance of their streams
floweth down into the depths of the pit; but the rivers of my land
fail not, and their streams water it for evermore.
"Kings shall pass away, and rulers be no more seen: their names and
their boasting shall be as the image in the glass; but my kingdom
abideth for ever, and the glory thereof is as the glory of the
chariot of the Most High."
Then Eliphaz waxed very wroth, and said, "Come, and let us leave him
to his folly. To what purpose have we journeyed hither to comfort
him, if he rails against us and says, 'Your kingdom shall be brought
to nought, but mine endureth for ever'?" And he would have gone
away in a rage. But Bildad restrained him, saying, "Remember that the
man is sick in body and mind; we should not deal harshly with him; it
may well be that he is mad." And Bildad and Zophar put questions to
me to discern whether I was of sound mind or not, and I answered them
soberly. And at last Zophar said, "What shall be done for thee?
Behold, we have with us the most skilful physicians that are in our
kingdoms. Wilt thou that they shall tend thee? Peradventure thou
mayest find relief at their hands." But I said, "My healing and my
medicine shall be from the Lord, who is the Maker of physicians and
of all their craft."
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