Job

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

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Job again took up his parable, and said,

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let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.