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

Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:

But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;

He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.

to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.