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was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and this man was simple, rightful and dreading God and going from all evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and his possession was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred asses, and his family and house hold passing much and great. He was a great man and rich among all the men of the Orient. And his sons went daily each to other house making great feasts, ever each one as his day came, and they sent for their three sisters for to eat and drink with them. When they had thus feasted each other, Job sent to them and blessed and sanctified them, and rising every day early, he offered sacrifices for them all, saying: 'Lest my children sin and bless not God in their hearts.' And thus did Job every day.

On a day when the sons of God were tofore our Lord, Satan came and was among them, to whom our Lord said: 'Whence comest thou?' Which answered: 'I have gone round about the earth and through walked it' Our Lord said to him: 'Hast thou not considered my servant Job, that there is none like unto him in the earth, a man simple, rightful, dreading God and going from evil? To whom Satan answered: 'Doth Job dread God idly? If so were that thou overthrewest him, his house and 19