Job 1:1-5

Prologue

1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
2 He had seven sons and three daughters,
3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

Cross References 17

  • 1. S Genesis 10:23; Jeremiah 25:20
  • 2. Ezekiel 14:14,20; James 5:11
  • 3. S Genesis 6:9; Genesis 17:1; S Job 23:10
  • 4. Job 23:7; Psalms 11:7; Psalms 107:42; Proverbs 21:29; Micah 7:2
  • 5. S Genesis 22:12; Exodus 18:21
  • 6. ver 8; S Deuteronomy 4:6; Job 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:22
  • 7. S Ruth 4:15
  • 8. ver 13,18; Job 42:13; Psalms 127:3; Psalms 144:12
  • 9. S Genesis 13:2
  • 10. S Genesis 12:16
  • 11. ver 8; Job 29:25
  • 12. S Genesis 25:6; Job 42:10; Psalms 103:10
  • 13. ver 13,18
  • 14. S Nehemiah 12:30
  • 15. S Genesis 8:20; Job 42:8
  • 16. Job 8:4
  • 17. 1 Kings 21:10,13; Psalms 10:3; Psalms 74:10
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