Job 1:13–22

¹³And ^jthere was a day ^swhen his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: ¹⁴And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: ¹⁵And ^tthe 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. ¹⁶While 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. ¹⁷While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, ^uThe Chaldeans made out ^vthree ^wbands, 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. ¹⁸While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, ^xThy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: ¹⁹And, behold, there came a great wind ^†from ^ythe 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. ²⁰Then Job ^zarose, and ^arent his ^||mantle, and ^bshaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, ²¹And said,

^cNaked came I out of my mother’s womb,

And naked shall I return thither:

The ^dLord ^egave, and the Lord hath taken away;

^fBlessed be the name of the Lord.

^22gIn all this Job sinned not, nor ^||charged God foolishly.