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Job’s Character and Wealth

1 There was a man in the land of *Jer. 25:20;Lam. 4:21Uz whose name was *Ezek. 14:14,20;James 5:11Job, and that man was *ver. 8;ch. 2:3;[ch. 9:20;Gen. 6:9;17:1] blameless and upright, one who *ch. 4:6;Prov. 16:6feared God and *[ch. 28:28;Ps. 34:14]turned away from evil. 2 There were born to him *ch. 42:13seven sons and three daughters. 3 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all *See Judg. 6:3the people of the east.