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18 As he was still speaking, another arrived to say, “Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother’s home, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and engulfed the house so that the roof fell in on them and all are dead; and I alone escaped to tell you.”

20 Then Job stood up and tore his robe in grief[a] and fell down upon the ground before God.

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  1. Job 1:20 tore his robe in grief, literally, “tore his robe and shaved his head.”

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