1In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.


In Context

1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

2 He had seven sons and three daughters,

3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

Job 1:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:1A 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.