Job 1:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² The Lord said to Satan,^[a] “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against him!” So Satan^[b] went out from the presence of the Lord.

Job Loses Property and Children

¹³ One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother’s house, ¹⁴ a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,