Prologue

1 In the land of Uz^(A) there lived a man whose name was Job.^(B) This man was blameless^(C) and upright;^(D) he feared God^(E) and shunned evil.^(F)

²⁰ and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;^(A) all the kings of the Philistines^(B) (those of Ashkelon,^(C) Gaza,^(D) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);