1. A man there hath been in the land of Uz--Job his name--and that man hath been perfect and upright--both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
2. And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,
3. and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.
4. And his sons have gone and made a banquet--the house of each [in] his day--and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;
5. and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings-- the number of them all--for Job said, `Perhaps my sons havesinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.
6. And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.
7. And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence comest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.'
8. And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'