Job 1:1-8

¹There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

²And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

³And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceeding great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

⁴And his sons went, and made a feast by houses every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

⁵And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

⁶Now on a certain day when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them.

⁷And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

⁸And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?