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[Job, good and just, in Uz had sojourned long]

“Job, good and just, in Uz had sojourned long,
He feared his God and shunned the way of wrong.
Three were his daughters, and his sons were seven,
And large the wealth bestowed on him by heaven.
Seven thousand sheep were in his pastures fed,
Three thousand camels by his train were led;
For him the yoke a thousand oxen wore,
Five hundred she asses his burdens bore.
His household to a mighty host increased,
The greatest man was Job in all the East.”
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