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Job's Character and Wealth
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
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the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
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If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
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The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.
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Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
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“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
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Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.
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A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
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“If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together,
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Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
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to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,
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to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
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to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
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And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.