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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 1</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/1-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 1</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/esther/10.htm" title="Esther 10">◄</a> Job 1 <a href="/job/2.htm" title="Job 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Job's Character and Wealth <a href="/job/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.</a> <a href="/job/1-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.</a> <a href="/job/1-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.</a> <a href="/job/1-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.</a> <a href="/job/1-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.</a> Satan's First Attack <a href="/job/1-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.</a> <a href="/job/1-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.</a> <a href="/job/1-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.</a> <a href="/job/1-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?</a> <a href="/job/1-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.</a> <a href="/job/1-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.</a> <a href="/job/1-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.</a> Job Loses his Children and Property <a href="/job/1-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,</a> <a href="/job/1-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;</a> <a href="/job/1-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15and the Sabeans fell upon them , and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</a> <a href="/job/1-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</a> <a href="/job/1-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</a> <a href="/job/1-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;</a> <a href="/job/1-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</a> <a href="/job/1-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;</a> <a href="/job/1-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.</a> <a href="/job/1-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/1-1.htm">The holiness, riches, and reverent care of Job for his children.</a> 6. <a href="/job/1-6.htm">Satan, appearing before God, obtains leave to afflict Job.</a> 13. <a href="/job/1-13.htm">Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning Job blesses God.</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/esther/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Esther 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Esther 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table><div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a> <iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>