Job 1:1-8 In the lande of Nus there was a man called Iob: an innocent & vertuous man, soche one as feared God exchued euell.

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the lande of Nus there was a man called Iob: an innocent & vertuous man, soche one as feared God exchued euell. ² This man had .vij. sonnes, & .iij. daughters. ³ Hys substaunce was .vij.M. shepe .iij.M. camels .v.C. youck of oxen .v.C. she asses, & a very greate housholde: so that he was one of the moste principall men amonge all them of the east countre. ⁴ And his sonnes went, and made banckettes: one daye in one house, another daye in another, and sent for their .iij. systers to eate and drincke with them. ⁵ So when they had passed ouer the tyme of their banckettynge rounde aboute, Iob sent for them, and clensed them agayne, and gat vp early, & offered for euery one a brentofferynge. For Iob thought thus: peraduenture my sonnes haue done some offence, and haue bene vnthankfull to God in their hertes. And thus dyd Iob euery daye. ⁶ Now vpon a tyme, when the seruauntes of God came & stode before the Lord, Sathan came also amonge them. ⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Sathan: From whence commest thou? Sathan answered the Lorde, and sayd: I haue gone aboute the lande and walcked thorow it. ⁸ Then sayde the Lorde vnto Sathan: hast thou not consydered my seruaunt Iob, how that he is an innocent & vertuous man: soch one as feareth God, & extrueth euel, & that there is none lyke hym in the lande?