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Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God foolishly.

And on a day the children of God came and stood before the Lord, and Satan came also among them, and stoode before the Lord.

And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Then said his wife vnto him, Doest thou continue yet in thine vprightnes? Blaspheme God, and dye.

But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.

Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

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

With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.

Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.

Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,