Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 822

1--8 have assaulted their attendants with their attendants with the edge of the eldest brother's house, when a great storm came from over the Desert and to inform y0u|’ Whilst he was speaking another

The tire of GOD has fallen from the skies, and has consumed the flocks and their atten- dants, and destroyed them, except myself, and I only have escaped to inform you ll Whilst he was yet speaking another came, and said: 'The Kasdim collected in three

troops, and rushed upon the camels, and seized them, and have assailed sword, except myself, and I only have escaped to tell you ! ' While he was speaking another came, and said: ‘Your sons and daughters were

eating and drinking wine in their 2-I0 JOB• Where do you come the Accuser answered the I0 IX I2 18 Loan, and said: From flying over the earth, and travelling in it. Then the Loan asked the Accuser,

‘ Have you nxed your attention upon My servant job ? That there is not a man like him upon earth-honest and upright, who fears GOD, and avoids wrong? The Accuser, however, answered

Does job reverence GOD for nothing? Have You not made a fence for him, and his family, and all that he has all round ? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his property has extended over the country. But perhaps if You stretchéd out Your hand, and destroyed all he pos- sesses, he would curse You to Your The LORD consequently replied to

Whatever he has shall be in your power! except that you shall not exert your hand upon So the Accuser departed from the presence of the LORD. Then another day arrived when

his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, when a mes- 'l`he oxen were ploughing and the she- asses grazing near them, when the Shabim fell on and seized them, and the sword, and I alone have escaped seized the four corners of the house, and flung it down upon the youths, and killed them, except myself, and I alone have escaped to tell Then job arose and tore his robe,

and shaved his head, and threw him· self upon the ground and worshipped, and said I came naked from my mother’s womb; And naked I shall return. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken, Blessed be the name of the In this job did not sin, nor accuse GOD of injustice. Another day arrived when the sons

of GOD reported themselves to the LORD, and the Accuser reported him- self amongst them to the LORD; when the LORD asked the Accuser, ‘ Where do you come from ?’ And the Accuser answered the

From flying over the earth, and up and down in The LORD then asked the Accuser, Have you fixed your attention on

My servant ]0b, that there is none like him on the earth, an honest and upright man, who fears GOD, and turns from wrong; who yet retains his virtues, although you induced Me to causelessly afliict him? ' The Accuser, however, replied to

Skin to skin! A man will give all that he has for his life! Perhaps if You were to ex- tend Your hand now, and torture his bones and his flesh, he would curse You to Your face? ’ So the LORD answered the Accuser

Look! He is in your power, except that you shall regard ` The Accuser consequently went

out from the presence of the LORD, and struck job with a painful ulcerous inflammation, from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat down amongst the ashes. His wife, however, said to him, Will you stick to your virtues? Curse GOD; and die! You speak

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