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Rh and did do shave his head, and falling down to the ground, worshipped and adored God, saying: 'I am come out naked from the womb of my mother and naked shall return again thereto. Our Lord hath given and our Lord hath taken away; as it hath pleased our Lord, so it is done; the name of our Lord be blessed.' In all these things Job sinned not with his lips, ne spake nothing follily against our Lord, but took it all patiently.

After this it was so that on a certain day when the children of God stood tofore our Lord, Satan came and stood among them, and God said to him: 'Whence comest thou? ' To whom Satan answered: 'I have gone round the earth, and walked through it' And God said to Satan, 'Hast thou not considered my servant Job that there is no man like him in the earth, a man simple, rightful, dreading God and going from evil and yet retaining his innocency? Thou hast moved me against him that I should put him to affliction without cause.' To whom Satan said: 'Skin for skin, and all that ever a man hath he shall give for his soul. Neverthless, stretch thine hand and touch his mouth and his flesh, and thou shalt see that he shall not bless thee.' Then said God to Satan: 'I will well that his body be in thine hand, but save his soul and his life.' Then Satan departed from the face of our Lord and smote Job with the worst blotches and blains from the plant of his foot unto the top of his head, which was made like a lazar and was cast out and sat on the dunghill. Then came his wife to him and said: 'Yet thou abidest in thy simpleness; forsake thy God