OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 20

Job 1:20

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Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

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Job 1:17–22

17

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

18

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

19

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

21

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the LORD’s name.”

22

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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