⁵ When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified.^(A) Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering^(B) for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned^(C) and cursed God^(D) in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

¹¹ But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has,^(A) and he will surely curse you to your face.”^(B)

²² In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.^(A)

²¹ Distressed and hungry,^(A) they will roam through the land;^(B) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(C) their king and their God.