World English Bible
Job 1:20
“Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.”
Verse in context — Job 1
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While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
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and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.
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Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
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He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh.
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In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
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