<p class="poetry">I will not show partiality to anyone,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor will I confer a title<n id="2" /> on any man.p>

<p class="poetry">In a dream, a night vision,p> <p class="poetry">when deep sleep falls on peoplep> <p class="poetry">as they sleep in their beds.p>

<p class="poetry">He goes about<n id="1" /> in company<n id="2" /> with evildoers,p> <p class="poetry">he goes along<n id="3" /> with wicked men.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Far be it from<n id="2" /> God to do wickedness,p> <p class="poetry">from the Almighty to do evil.p>

<p class="poetry">For he does not still consider a person,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that he should come before God in judgment.p>

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> Job will be tested to the end,p> <p class="poetry">because his answers are like those of wicked men.p>

<p class="poetry">Should he be informed that I want<n id="1" /> to speak?p> <p class="poetry">If a man speaks, surely he would be swallowed up!p>

<p class="poetry">to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a desert where there are no human beings,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now his sons used to go<n id="1" /> and hold<n id="2" /> a feast in the house of each one in turn,<n id="3" /> and they would send and invite<n id="4" /> their three<n id="5" /> sisters to eat and to drink with them.

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> Satan answered the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Skin for<n id="2" /> skin!<n id="3" /> Indeed, a man will give up<n id="4" /> all that he has to save his life!<n id="5" />

But when they gazed intently<n id="1" /> from a distance but did not recognize<n id="2" /> him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;If only I had<n id="1" /> someone to hear me!p> <p class="poetry">Here is my signature &#8211; <n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let the Almighty answer me!p> <p class="poetry">If only I had an indictment<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">that my accuser had written.<n id="4" />p>

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined<n id="1" /> with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the <sc>Lordsc> had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver<n id="2" /> and a gold ring.<n id="3" />p>

His possessions<n id="1" /> included<n id="2" /> 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household.<n id="3" /> Thus he<n id="4" /> was the greatest of all the people in the east.<n id="5" />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">When Job&#8217;s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country<n id="2" /> &#8211; Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.<n id="3" /> They met together<n id="4" /> to come to show sympathy<n id="5" /> for him and to console<n id="6" /> him.