³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

⁸ And 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?'

⁵ Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

⁶ On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

¹⁷ Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

¹⁷ A highway of the upright `is', `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

³ Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

¹² Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

⁷ that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle `you';

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked `is' an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright `is' His delight.

² Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted `in' his ways is despising Him.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

²⁰ And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it -- far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy.

¹¹ The 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!'

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

²² In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.

²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each `is' peace.

¹² As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.

⁸ The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.

⁹ These `are' births of Noah: Noah `is' a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.