18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, (A)“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across (B)the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

20 Then Job arose and (C)tore his (D)robe and (E)shaved his head (F)and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, (G)“Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I (H)return. The Lord (I)gave, and the Lord has taken away; (J)blessed be the name of the Lord.”

22 (K)In all this Job did not sin or charge God with (L)wrong.

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