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And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." This is what Job always did.

The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil."

Then Satan answered the Lord , "Does Job fear God for nothing?

While he was still speaking, another came and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; I alone have escaped to tell you."

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die."

But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, or light shine on it.

Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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

‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?

"As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

"How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

"O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;

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 the right?

If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,