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The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.

There once was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular practice.

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil."

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

a messenger came and reported to Job: "While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

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

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him-blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Now when Job's three friends-Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite-heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home and met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air over his head.

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

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