When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,

“A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.

He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.

You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,

for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.

“My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

Listen carefully to what I say; let my words ring in your ears.

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

“Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.

I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

“Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,