<p class="poetry">Like a servant<n id="1" /> longing for the evening shadow,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and like a hired man looking<n id="3" /> for his wages,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Small and great are<n id="1" /> there,p> <p class="poetry">and the slave is free<n id="2" /> from his master.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> God<n id="2" /> puts no trust in<n id="3" /> his servants<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and attributes<n id="5" /> folly<n id="6" /> to his angels,p>

<p class="poetry">I summon<n id="1" /> my servant, but he does not respond,p> <p class="poetry">even though I implore<n id="2" /> him with my own mouth.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;If I have disregarded the right of my male servantsp> <p class="poetry">or my female servantsp> <p class="poetry">when they disputed<n id="1" /> with me,p>

<p class="poetry">Will it make a pact<n id="1" /> with you,p> <p class="poetry">so you could take it<n id="2" /> as your slave for life?p>

So now take<n id="1" /> seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede<n id="2" /> for you, and I will respect him,<n id="3" /> so that I do not deal with you<n id="4" /> according to your folly,<n id="5" /> because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered<n id="1" /> my servant Job? There<n id="2" /> is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away<n id="3" /> from evil.&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly<n id="1" /> to his integrity,<n id="2" /> so that<n id="3" /> you stirred me up to destroy him<n id="4" /> without reason.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken these things to Job, he<n id="1" /> said to Eliphaz the Temanite, &#8220;My anger is stirred up<n id="2" /> against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right,<n id="3" /> as my servant Job has.