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.

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.