Job, a king equal in rank with ourselves?" And when Job
said Aye, they broke out into lamentations and bitter tears,
and all together they sang an elegy, the armies of the three
kings, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, joining in the choir.
Again Eliphaz began to speak, and he bemoaned Job's sad
fortune, and depicted his friend's former glory, adding the
refrain to each sentence, "Whither hath departed the splendor
of thy throne?"

After listening long to the wailing and lamenting of Eliphaz
and his companions, Job spake, saying: "Silence, and
I will show you my throne and the splendor of its glory.
Kings will perish, rulers disappear, their pride and lustre
will pass like a shadow across a mirror, but my kingdom
will persist forever and ever, for glory and magnificence are