1 Cera nel paese di Uz un uomo che si chiamava Giobbe. Questuomo era integro e retto; temeva Iddio e fuggiva il male.

2 Gli erano nati sette figliuoli e tre figliuole;

3 possedeva settemila pecore, tremila cammelli, cinquecento paia di bovi, cinquecento asine e una servitù molto numerosa. E questuomo era il più grande di tutti gli Orientali.

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.