Job 1:1-8 In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill ² And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters ³ His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east [countrey. ⁴ And his sonnes went and banquetted in their houses euery one his day, and sent for their three sisters to eate and drinke with them ⁵ And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring: For Iob saide, It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes. Thus did Iob euery day ⁶ And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord, Satan came also among them ⁷ And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Whence comest thou? Satan aunswered the Lorde and saide: From compassing the earth to and fro, & from walking through it ⁸ And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how there is none lyke him in the earth? a perfect and a iust man, one that feareth God, and eschueth euill