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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: 'A 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.'

For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.

Again it fell upon a day, that 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, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil? and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou didst move Me against him, to destroy him without cause.'

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

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

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 just before God? Shall a man be pure before 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 earnestly 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;

Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers;