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Job 1 📜 📕 ↷
Job's Character and Wealth
1 THERE was a man in the Land of Hus, named Job, and that man was simple, and right, and fearing God, and departing from evil.📜💬📚
2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.📜💬📚
3 And his possession was seven thousand sheep, & three thousand camels, also five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a family exceeding great: and that man was great among all them of the East.📜💬📚
4 And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat & drink with them.📜💬📚
5 And when the days of feasting had passed about in course, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early offered holocausts for every one. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all the days.📜💬📚
Satan's First Attack
6 But on a certain day when the sons of God were come to assist before our Lord, Satan also was present among them.📜💬📚
7 To whom our Lord said: From whence comest thou? Who answering, said: I have gone round about the earth, & walked through it.📜💬📚
8 And our Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is not the like to him in the earth, a man simple, and right, and fearing God, and departing from evil?📜💬📚
9 To whom Satan answering, said: Why, doth Job fear God in vain?📜💬📚
10 hast not thou fenced him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?📜💬📚
11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all things that he possesseth, unless he bless thee in the face.📜💬📚
12 Our Lord therefore said to Satan: behold, all things that he hath, are in thy hand, only upon him extend not thy hand. And Satan went forth from the face of our Lord.📜💬📚
Job Loses His Children and Possessions
13 And when upon a certain day his sons and daughters did eat, and drink wine in the house of their eldest brother,📜💬📚
14 there came a messenger to Job, which said: The oxen ploughed, and the she-asses fed beside them,📜💬📚
15 and the Sabeians came in violently, and have taken all things, and have strucken the servants with the sword, and I only have escaped to tell thee.📜💬📚
16 And when he yet spake, an other came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants hath consumed them, and I only have escaped to tell thee.📜💬📚
17 But whilst he also was yet speaking, there came an other and said: The Chaldees made three troops, and have invaded the camels, and taken them, moreover the servants also they have strucken with the sword, and I alone am fled to tell thee.📜💬📚
18 He yet spake, and behold an other came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,📜💬📚
19 suddenly a vehement wind came violently from the country of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, which falling oppressed thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.📜💬📚
20 Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, & with polled head falling on the ground, adored,📜💬📚
21 and said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Our Lord gave, and our Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased our Lord, so is it done: the name of our Lord be blessed.📜💬📚
22 In all these things Job sinned not with his lips, neither spake he any foolish thing against God.📜💬📚
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