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, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none 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?

The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

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

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."

The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none 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."

Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

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 did not sin with his lips.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'

Job again took up his parable, and said,

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Elihu also continued, and said,

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.