1. A man in the land of Uz was named Job. That man was honest, a person of absolute integrity; he feared God and avoided evil.
2. He had seven sons and three daughters,
3. and owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a vast number of servants, so that he was greater than all the people of the east.
4. Each of his sons hosted a feast in his own house on his birthday. They invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.