1 Na terra de Uz vivia um homem chamado Jó. Era homem íntegro e justo; temia a Deus e evitava o mal.

2 Tinha ele sete filhos e três filhas,

3 e possuía sete mil ovelhas, três mil camelos, quinhentas parelhas de boi e quinhentos jumentos, e tinha muita gente a seu serviço. Era o homem mais rico do oriente.

1 A man, there wasin the land of Uz, Job, his name,and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.

2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

3 And his substance wasseven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a body of servants exceeding large,thus was that man the greatest of all the sons of the East.