Job

What the Bible says

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Job 1:13-22; Job 2:7-10

¹³Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, ¹⁴There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them, ¹⁵And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them, moreover they have slain the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their elder brother: ¹⁹A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to fell thee. ²⁰Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped, ²¹And 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: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. ²²In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Job 38:1; Job 42:8-10

Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.