"He sitteth upon a dunghill without the city." And they asked what
was become of my wealth--for I was aforetime richer than all the
princes of the East--and they were informed of all that had befallen
me. So they came where I was, and some of the men of the city with
them, who showed me to them. But they said, "This is not Jobab." Yet
the men of the place affirmed that it was so; and after they had
disputed for some time, Eliphaz called to me, "Art thou Jobab, our
fellow-king?" And I, weeping and casting dust upon my head, bowed
myself in token that it was I.

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