1 Daar was 'n man in die land Us wie se naam was Job; en die man was vroom en opreg en godvresend en een wat afgewyk het van die kwaad.
2 En vir hom is daar sewe seuns en drie dogters gebore.
3 Daarby was sy besitting sewe duisend stuks kleinvee en drie duisend kamele en vyf honderd paar beeste en vyf honderd eselinne en 'n groot menigte slawe, sodat die man ryker was as al die kinders van die Ooste.
4 En sy seuns was gewoond om 'n maaltyd aan te rig in die huis van elkeen op sy dag. Dan stuur hulle en nooi hul drie susters om saam met hulle te eet en te drink.
5 En elke keer as die dae van die maaltye om was, het Job gestuur en hulle geheilig. Dan maak Job die môre vroeg klaar en bring brandoffers vir elkeen van hulle; want Job het gedink: Miskien het my kinders gesondig en God in hulle hart geseën! So het Job altyd gedoen.
6 En op 'n dag toe die seuns van God kom om hulle voor die HERE te stel, het die Satan ook onder hulle gekom.
7 Toe vra die HERE vir die Satan: Waar kom jy vandaan? En die Satan antwoord die HERE en sê: Van 'n swerftog oor die aarde, wat ek deurkruis het.
8 En die HERE vra vir die Satan: Het jy ag gegee op my kneg Job? Want daar is niemand op die aarde soos hy nie: 'n man vroom en opreg, godvresend en wat afwyk van die kwaad.
9 En die Satan antwoord die HERE en sê: Is dit verniet dat Job God vrees?
10 Het U nie self hom en sy huis en alles wat hy het, aan alle kante rondom, beskut nie? Die werk van sy hande het U geseën, en sy vee het sterk vermeerder in die land.
11 Maar strek net u hand uit en tas alles aan wat hy het -- waarlik, hy sal U in u aangesig seën!
12 Daarop sê die HERE aan die Satan: Kyk, alles wat hy het, is in jou hand; net na homself mag jy jou hand nie uitsteek nie. En die Satan het weggegaan van die aangesig van die HERE.
13 En op 'n dag, terwyl sy seuns en sy dogters besig was om te eet en wyn te drink in die huis van hul oudste broer,
14 kom 'n boodskapper na Job en sê: Terwyl die beeste aan ploeë was en die esels aan wei langs hulle,
15 het die Sabeërs 'n inval gedoen en dit weggeroof, en hulle het die dienaars met die skerpte van die swaard verslaan; en net ek alleen het ontvlug om u dit te vertel.
16 Terwyl die een nog spreek, kom daar 'n ander een en sê: Die vuur van God het van die hemel geval en gebrand onder die kleinvee en onder die dienaars, en dit het hulle verteer; en net ek alleen het ontvlug om u dit te vertel.
17 Terwyl die een nog spreek, kom daar 'n ander een en sê: Die Chaldeërs het drie leërafdelings opgestel en 'n aanval op die kamele gemaak en dit weggeroof, maar hulle het die dienaars met die skerpte van die swaard verslaan; en net ek alleen het ontvlug om u dit te vertel.
18 Terwyl die een nog spreek, kom daar 'n ander een en sê: U seuns en u dogters was besig om te eet en wyn te drink in die huis van hulle oudste broer,
19 toe daar meteens 'n groot wind oor die woestyn kom wat die huis aan die vier hoeke gryp; en dit het op die jongmense geval, sodat hulle gesterf het; en net ek alleen het ontvlug om u dit te vertel.
20 Toe staan Job op en skeur sy mantel, en hy het sy hoof geskeer en in aanbidding op die grond geval
21 en gesê: Naak het ek uit my moeder se skoot gekom, en naak sal ek daarheen terugkeer. Die HERE het gegee, en die HERE het geneem: die Naam van die HERE sy geloofd!
22 By dit alles het Job nie gesondig en aan God niks ongerymds toegeskrywe nie,
1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
4 His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.
5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
6 And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
7 And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
8 And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
9 And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?
10 Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?
11 But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
12 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.
13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,
14 And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
15 And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
16 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
17 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
18 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
19 When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
20 Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,
21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
22 In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.