18:001:017 While he was yet speaking, there came also
another, and said,
The
Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,
and
have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants
with
the
edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell
thee.
18:001:018 While he was yet speaking, there came also
another, and said,
Thy
sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine
in
their
eldest brother’s house:
18:001:019 And, behold, there came a great wind from
the wilderness, and
smote
the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the
young
men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone
to
tell
thee.
18:001:020 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and
shaved his head, and
fell
down upon the ground, and worshipped,
18:001:021 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s
womb, and naked
shall
I return thither: the lord gave, and the
lord hath taken
away;
blessed be the name of the lord.
18:001:022 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
18:002:001 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.
18:002:002 And the lord said unto Satan, From
whence comest thou? And
Satan
answered the lord, and said, From going to and
fro in
the
earth, and from walking up and down in it.
18:002:003 And the lord said unto Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant
Job,
that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and
an
upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
and
still
he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst
me
against
him, to destroy him without cause.
18:002:004 And Satan answered the lord, and said,
Skin for skin, yea, all
that
a man hath will he give for his life.
18:002:005 But put forth thine hand now, and touch
his bone and his
flesh,
and he will curse thee to thy face.
18:002:006 And the lord said unto Satan, Behold,
he is in thine hand; but
save
his life.
18:002:007 So went Satan forth from the presence of
the lord, and smote
Job
with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
18:002:008 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself
withal; and he
sat
down among the ashes.
18:002:009 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou
still retain thine
integrity?
curse God, and die.
18:002:010 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.


