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Job’s Happy Life

There was a man in the land of Uz[a] whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright, a man who feared God and turned away from evil. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him. His possessions included seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys. He also had a very large retinue of servants. This man was the greatest of all the men of the East.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:1 Most of the evidence points to the southern part of the territory east of the Jordan River as the location of Uz, but there is some evidence that points to a more northerly location.