8And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?`
9And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God?
10Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?
11The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!`
12And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath [is] in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.` And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.
13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
14And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,
