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And it came to pass on a certain day, that the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came among them to stand before the Lord.
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And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence comest thou? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.
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And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, that there is none of upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas thou has told to destroy his substance without cause?
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And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.
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Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to face.
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And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life.
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So the devil went out from the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from feet to head.
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And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
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And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.