1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God,^[a] and turned away from evil. ² There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ³ His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.