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Job 2:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life.

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For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

But ten men were found among them that said to Ismahel: Kill us not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat and barley and oil and honey. And he forbore and slew them not with their brethren.

And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh: and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: And he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.

Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? We will be thine, both we and our lands. Buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

They answered: It was told us thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel.

And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. So let us put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor beareth not reprehension.

The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the raiment.




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