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and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

There was a man in the land of `Utz, whose name was Iyov. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Iyov sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Iyov said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Iyov continually.

Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, that Hasatan also came among them.

The LORD said to Hasatan, "Have you considered my servant, Iyov? For there is none like him in the eretz, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Then Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Iyov fear God for nothing?

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."

In all this, Iyov did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, that Hasatan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

The LORD said to Hasatan, "Have you considered my servant Iyov? For there is none like him in the eretz, 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."

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 Iyov didn't sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?

By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

"But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of Shaddai.

For the arrows of Shaddai are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!