And remember our servant Job when he cried to his Lord, "Verily, Satan hath laid on me disease and pain."
"Stamp," said we, "with thy foot. This14 is to wash with; cool, and to drink."
And we gave him back his family, and as many more with them in our mercy; and for a monition to men of judgment.
And we said, "Take in thine hand a rod, and strike15 with it, nor break thine oath." Verily, we found him patient!
How excellent a servant, one who turned to Us was he!
And remember our servants Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, men of might and vision.16
With this cleansing did we cleanse them the remembrance of the abode of
Paradise.
And verily, they were, in our sight, of the elect and of the good.
And remember Ishmael and Elisha and Dhoulkefl, for all these were of the just.
This is a monition: and verily, the pious shall have a goodly retreat: