# Job 1

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. In the land of Uz there lived a man named Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and kept away from evil.
2. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
3. His livestock numbered seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and he had a very large household of servants. No one among the people of the East was as great as that man.
4. His sons used to hold feasts, each one in his own house on his appointed day, and they would send for their three sisters to come and eat and drink with them.
5. Whenever a round of feasting days was complete, Job would send for them and consecrate them. He would rise early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for every one of them, because Job said, “Maybe my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s practice at all times.
6. One day the sons of God came to take their stand before Yahweh, and Satan also arrived in their midst.
7. Yahweh said to Satan, “Where are you coming from?” Satan answered Yahweh, “From ranging over the earth and walking about on it.”
8. Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you paid attention to my servant Job? No one on the earth is like him, a man blameless and upright, who fears God and keeps away from evil.”
9. Satan answered Yahweh, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
10. Have you not built a fence around him and his household and all that belongs to him, on every side? You have blessed what his hands do, and his livestock has multiplied throughout the land.
11. But just reach out your hand and touch everything he has, and see if he does not curse you to your face.”
12. Yahweh said to Satan, “All right, everything he has is in your hands; just do not reach out your hand against the man himself.” Then Satan left Yahweh’s presence.
13. One day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their oldest brother,
14. a messenger came to Job and reported, “The cattle were plowing, with the donkeys grazing next to them,
15. and the Sabeans swooped down and took them. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
16. While he was still speaking, another came and said, “God’s fire fell from the sky; it burned among the flocks and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
17. While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans divided into three bands, made a raid on the camels, and carried them off. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
18. While he was still speaking, another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their oldest brother,
19. and suddenly a powerful wind swept in from beyond the desert and hit the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
20. Job stood up, ripped his robe, and shaved his head; then he threw himself to the ground and bowed in worship.
21. He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked I will go back there. Yahweh has given, and Yahweh has taken; let Yahweh’s name be blessed.”
22. Through all of this Job did not sin, nor did he accuse God of doing anything improper.

## Nearby chapters

[Esther 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/esther/10.md)
[Job 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/2.md)

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