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

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job 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, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, 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 Job 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 the Almighty.

For the arrows of the Almighty 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!

Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.