There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;