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)

³ and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys,^(A) and had a large number of servants.^(B) He was the greatest man^(C) among all the people of the East.^(D)