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Job 1:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,  who fears God and turns away from evil.’

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Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,  who fears God and turns away from evil.  He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’


There was a man in the country of Uz  named Job.  He was a man of complete integrity,  who feared God and turned away from evil.


‘Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.


To fear the Lord is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.


Look, God does not reject a person of integrity, and he will not support  evildoers.


Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength  according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.


Moses was a very humble man, more so than anyone on the face of the earth.


‘This  is my servant;  I strengthen him, this is my chosen one;  I delight in him. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice  to the nations.


If he put his mind to it and withdrew the spirit  and breath he gave,


I am a laughing-stock to my   friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughing-stock.


Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you.  Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.


Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him and said about him, ‘Here truly is an Israelite   in whom there is no deceit.’


He spoke to me: ‘Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears,  and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.’


The governors  who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them food and wine as well as half a kilogram  of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but because of the fear of God, I didn’t do this.


‘Moses my servant is dead.  Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan  to the land I am giving the Israelites.


One day the sons of God  came again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the Lord.





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