1. There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.
2. And there had been born to him seven sons and three daughters.
3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, along with five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred she-donkeys, and also a very large family. And this man was great among all the people of the east.