He said, &#8220;Naked<n id="1" /> I came from my mother&#8217;s womb, and naked I will return there.<n id="2" /> The <sc>Lordsc> gives, and the <sc>Lordsc> takes away.<n id="3" /> May the name of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="4" /> be blessed!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the <sc>Lordsc>, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> I have sinned &#8211; what have I done to you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">O watcher of men?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why have you set me as your target?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Have I become a burden to you?<n id="5" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the days of their feasting were finished,<n id="2" /> Job would send<n id="3" /> for them and sanctify<n id="4" /> them; he would get up early<n id="5" /> in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to<n id="6" /> the number of them all. For Job thought, &#8220;Perhaps<n id="7" /> my children<n id="8" /> have sinned and cursed<n id="9" /> God in their hearts.&#8221; This was Job&#8217;s customary practice.<n id="10" />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.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the second part of Job&#8217;s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.