He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."

So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

"Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring [it.]

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.

"That which was torn [by beasts] I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, [whether] stolen by day or stolen by night.

"Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

"that you shall say, 'Your servants' occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we [and] also our fathers,' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination to the Egyptians."

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that [there is] none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that [there is] none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause."

Mark the blameless [man,] and observe the upright; For the future of [that] man [is] peace.

By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as [in] a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;