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Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought?

While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and 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 or charge God with wrong.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause."

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

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

Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged 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 mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

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

"Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening 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,

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.