⁸ The Lord said to Satan, “Have you ^[a]considered ^(A)My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, ^(B)a blameless and upright man, ^[b]fearing God and turning away from evil.” ⁹ Then ^(C)Satan answered the ^[c]Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ^10 (D)Have You not made a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? ^(E)You have blessed the work of his hands, and his ^(F)possessions have increased in the land. ^11 (G)But reach out with Your hand now and ^(H)touch all that he has; he will certainly curse You to Your face.”

Job’s Character and Wealth

1 There was a man in the ^(A)land of Uz whose name was ^(B)Job; and that man was ^(C)blameless, upright, ^(D)fearing God and ^(E)turning away from evil. ^2 (F)Seven sons and three daughters were born to him. ^3 (G)His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was ^(H)the greatest of all the ^[a]men of the east.

⁴ Now to the one who ^(A)works, the wages are not credited as a favor, but as what is due.

⁶ But ^(A)if it is by grace, it is no longer ^[a]on the basis of works, since otherwise grace is no longer grace.

²⁹ And the Levite, ^(A)because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and ^(B)the stranger, the ^[a]orphan, and the widow who are in your ^[b]town, shall come and ^(C)eat and be satisfied, in order that ^(D)the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

¹⁵ For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

¹⁹ “^(A)When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back to get it; it shall belong ^(B)to the stranger, the ^[a]orphan, and to the widow, in order that the Lord your God ^(C)may bless you in all the work of your hands.