my children sin and bless not God in their hearts. And thus
did Job every day.

On a day when the sons of God were tofore our Lord, Satan came and was
among them, to whom our Lord said: Whence comest thou? Which answered, I
have gone round about the earth and through walked it. Our Lord said to
him: Hast thou not considered my servant Job, that there is none like
unto him in the earth, a man simple, rightful, dreading God, and going
from evil? To whom Satan answered: Doth Job dread God idly? If so were
that thou overthrewest him, his house and all his substance round about,
he should soon forsake thee. Thou hast blest the work of his hands, and
his possession is increased much in the earth, but stretch out thy hand
a little, and touch all that he hath in possession, and he shall soon
grudge and not bless thee. Then said our Lord to Satan: Lo! all that
which he owneth and hath in possession, I will it be in thy hand and
power, but on his person ne body set not thy hand. Satan departed and
went from the face of our Lord. On a day as his sons and daughters ate,
and drank wine, in the house of the oldest brother, there came a
messenger to Job which said: The oxen eared in the plough and the ass
pastured in the pasture by them, and the men of Sabea ran on them, and
smote thy servants, and slew them with sword, and I only escaped for to
come and to show it to thee. And whiles he spake came another and said:
The fire of God fell down from heaven and hath burned thy sheep and
servants and consumed them, and I only escaped for to come and show it
to thee. And yet whiles he spake came another and said: The Chaldees
made three hosts and have enveigled thy camels and taken them, and have
slain thy servants with sword, and I only escaped for to bring thee
word. And yet he speaking another entered in and said: Thy sons and
daughters, drinking wine in the house of thy first begotten son,
suddenly came a vehement wind from the region of desert and smote the
four corners of the house, which falling oppressed thy children, and
they be all dead, and I only fled for to tell it to thee. Then Job
arose, and cut his coat, and did do shave his head, and falling down to
the ground, worshipped and adored God, saying: I am come out naked from
the womb of my mother and naked shall return again thereto. Our Lord
hath given and our Lord hath taken away, as it hath pleased our Lord, so
it is done, the name of our Lord be blessed. In all these things J