Job 1
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land[1] of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and avoided evil.
Job 1:2 He had seven sons and three daughters.
Job 1:3 He also had seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and an enormous number of servants. Job was the most remarkable man among all the people of the East.
Job 1:4 His sons used to take turns feasting at their homes. They would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job 1:5 Whenever a round of feasts was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer ascending[2] offerings for all of them. Job thought, “Perhaps my children have failed,[3] having cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
Job 1:6 One day, the sons of God[4] came to present themselves before Yahveh,[5] and Satan also came with them.
Job 1:7 Yahveh asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” “From roaming through the land,” Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”
Job 1:8 Then Yahveh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on the land is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”
Job 1:9 Satan answered Yahveh, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Job 1:10 Haven’t you placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Job 1:11 But send out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Job 1:12 “Very well,” Yahveh told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.” So, Satan left Yahveh’s presence.
Job 1:13 One day, when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:14 a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
Job 1:15 the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 1:16 He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “God’s fire fell from the sky.[6] It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 1:17 That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 1:18 He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.
Job 1:19 Suddenly, a mighty wind[7] swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 1:20 Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
Job 1:21 saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. Yahveh gives, and Yahveh takes away. Blessed be the name of Yahveh.
Job 1:22 Throughout all this, Job did not fail God or blame him for anything.
[1] אֶרֶץ = land, ground. Job 1:1, 7, 8, 10, 20; 2:2, 3, 13; 3:14; 5:10, 22, 25; 7:1; 8:9; 9:6, 24; 10:21, 22; 11:9; 12:8, 15, 24; 14:8, 19; 15:19, 29; 16:13, 18; 18:4, 10, 17; 20:4, 27; 22:8; 24:4, 18; 26:7; 28:5, 13, 24; 30:8; 34:13; 35:11; 37:3, 6, 12, 13, 17; 38:4, 13, 18, 24, 26, 33; 39:14, 24; 42:15.
[2] עֹלָה = ascending (offering). Job 1:5, 42:8.
[3] חָטָא = fail. Job 1:5, 22, 2:10, 5:24, 7:20, 8:4, 10:14, 24:19.31:30. 33:27, 35:6, 41:25.
[4] LXX = “οἱ ἄγγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ” (the agents of God).
[5] יהוה = Yahveh. Job 1:6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 21; 2:1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7; 12:9; 38:1; 40:1, 3, 6; 42:1, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12.
[6] שָׁמַיִם = sky, air. Job 1:16; 2:12; 9:8; 11:8; 12:7; 14:12; 15:15; 16:19; 20:6, 27; 22:12, 14; 26:11, 13; 28:21, 24; 35:5, 11; 37:3; 38:29, 33, 37; 41:11.
[7] רוּחַ = wind, breath. Job 1:19; 4:9, 15; 6:4, 26; 7:7, 11; 8:2; 9:18; 10:12; 12:10; 15:2, 13, 30; 16:3; 17:1; 19:17; 20:3; 21:4, 18; 26:13; 27:3; 28:25; 30:15, 22; 32:8, 18, 33:4, 34:14; 37:21; 41:16.
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