And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Satan Takes Job's Property and Children

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.

He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

“They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.

when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?