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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

And said, Naked came I out of my mother"s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother"s house:

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother"s house:

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.