While I was yet speaking, there came to us my wife Sitis, clothed in rags, and she had escaped by stealth out of the house of her master; for he would have kept her within, fearing that the kings would call him to account for his ill-usage of us.  So when she came to us, she threw herself down before Eliphaz and said, “Rememberest thou, Eliphaz and thy fellows, how I looked and how I was attired in the former days?  Look now and see in what guise I go about.”  And they were cut to the heart and wept, but knew not what to say; only Eliphaz took off his purple robe and put it about her shoulders.  And she besought them, saying, “I pray you, command your servants to dig among the ruins of the house that fell upon our children, and seek out their bones that they may be buried and a memorial set up; for till this day we have never been able to do so because of the cost.  Consider, I beseech you, what I suffer that have lost ten children, and not one of them is given to burial.”  So they prepared to dig; but I prevented them, and said, “Labour not in vain; ye will not find my children, for they have been taken up into the heavens by the King that created them.”  Again they said, “Who would not say that thou art mad?  Thy children are taken up into heaven, sayest thou?  Show us now what thou meanest.”

I said, therefore, “Raise me up that I may stand on my feet.”  And they took each an arm and raised me, and I stood up and made supplication to the Father, and then said to them, “Lift up your eyes and look towards the east.”  And they looked, and beheld my children crowned with glory in the heavens, and above them the glory of the Most High.  Which when Sitis my wife saw, she fell upon her face and worshipped, and said, “Now know I that there is remembrance of me with God.  I will go now into the city and rest a little, and refresh myself for my labours of the morrow.”  So she went into the city, and entered into the stable of the kine that had been hers, and had been taken from her by those that employed her; and she lay down by one of the mangers and slept, having her mind at rest, and so died.  And on the morrow her master sought her, and did not find her; and at last entering into the stable, he saw her lying dead there, and ran out and summoned men to him; and all the city came and saw her lying in the stable, and the beasts standing about her, lowing and making lamentation over her.  Then they carried her forth and buried her beside the place of the house that had fallen upon her children.

Now as for all the words which Eliphaz, and Bildad, and Zophar, and Elihu spake with me, and those wherewith I answered them, are they not written in the book for your remembrance?  Also ye know how that at the last the Lord came and answered me out of the whirlwind, and rebuked us.  And we made atonement for that which we had said amiss:  all but Elihu, for into him Satan had entered, and he had spoken evil words against me; wherefore he departed, and made no atonement for his sin.