Iyov, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} There was a man in the land of `Utz, whose name was Iyov. That
man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away
from evil. {1:2} There were born to him seven sons and three
daughters. {1:3} His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three
thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys,
and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all
the children of the east. {1:4} His sons went and held a feast in the
house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their
three sisters to eat and to drink with them. {1:5} It was so, when the
days of their feasting had run their course, that Iyov sent and
sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt
offerings according to the number of them all. For Iyov said, "It may
be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus
did Iyov continually.
{1:6} Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before the LORD, that Hasatan also came among them.
{1:7} The LORD said to Hasatan, "Where have you come from?"
Then Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth
in the [1>]eretz[<1], and from walking up and down in it."
{1:8} The LORD said to Hasatan, "Have you considered my servant,
Iyov? For there is none like him in the [2>]eretz[<2], a blameless and
an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
{1:9} Then Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Iyov fear God
for nothing? {1:10} Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around
his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed
the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
{1:11} But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he
will renounce you to your face."
{1:12} The LORD said to Hasatan, "Behold, all that he has is in your
power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand."
So Hasatan went forth from the presence of the LORD. {1:13} It fell
on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother's house, {1:14} that there came a messenger to
Iyov, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside
them, {1:15} and the Seva'im attacked, and took them away. Yes, they
have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have
escaped to tell you."
{1:16} While he was still speaking, there also came another, and
said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the
sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to
tell you."
{1:17} While he was still speaking, there came also another, and
said, "The Kasdim made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and
have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of
the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
{1:18} While he was still speaking, there came also another, and
said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in
their eldest brother's house, {1:19} and, behold, there came a great
wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house,
and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped
to tell you."
{1:20} Then Iyov arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and
fell down on the ground, and worshiped. {1:21} He said, "Naked I came
out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD
gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
{1:22} In all this, Iyov did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
{2:1} Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before the LORD, that Hasatan came also among them
to present himself before the LORD. {2:2} The LORD said to Hasatan,
"Where have you come from?"
Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth in
the [1>]eretz[<1], and from walking up and down in it."
{2:3} The LORD said to Hasatan, "Have you considered my servant
Iyov? For there is none like him in the [2>]eretz[<2], a blameless and
an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still
maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin
him without cause."
{2:4} Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all
that a man has will he give for his life. {2:5} But put forth your
hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you
to your face."
{2:6} The LORD said to Hasatan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only
spare his life."
{2:7} So Hasatan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and
struck Iyov with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
{2:8} He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he
sat among the ashes. {2:9} Then his wife said to him, "Do you still
maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
{2:10} But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women
would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall
we not receive evil?"
In all this Iyov didn't sin with his lips. {2:11} Now when Iyov's
three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each
came from his own place: Elifaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuchite, and
Tzofar the Na`amatite, and they made an appointment together to come
to sympathize with him and to comfort him. {2:12} When they lifted up
their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised
their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled
dust on their heads toward the sky. {2:13} So they sat down with him
on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to
him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
{3:1} After this Iyov opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his
birth. {3:2} Iyov answered:
{3:3} "Let the day perish in which I was born,
The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'
{3:4} Let that day be darkness;
Don't let God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine on it.
{3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
{3:6} As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
Let it not come into the number of the months.
{3:7} Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein.
{3:8} Let them curse it who curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse up livyatan.
{3:9} Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
{3:10} Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb,
Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
{3:11} "Why didn't I die from the womb?
Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
{3:12} Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should suck?
{3:13} For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
{3:14} With kings and counselors of the [1>]eretz[<1],
Who built up waste places for themselves;
{3:15} Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver:
{3:16} Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
As infants who never saw light.
{3:17} There the wicked cease from troubling;
There the weary are at rest.
{3:18} There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
{3:19} The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.
{3:20} "Why is light given to him who is in misery,
Life to the bitter in soul,
{3:21} Who long for death, but it doesn't come;
Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
{3:22} Who rejoice exceedingly,
Are glad, when they can find the grave?
{3:23} Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
Whom God has hedged in?
{3:24} For my sighing comes before I eat,
My groanings are poured out like water.
{3:25} For the thing which I fear comes on me,
That which I am afraid of comes to me.
{3:26} I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
But trouble comes."
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:7} earth
[2] {1:8} earth
[1] {2:2} earth
[2] {2:3} earth
[1] {3:14} earth
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