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Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with foolishness.

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

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and art upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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

By the breath of God they perish, and 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 unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me 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!

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish: