Job.

And remember Our servant Job [Eiyoob ²⁴⁵ The affliction is attributed to the devil, though all was from God.) And it was said unto him, Strike the earth with thy foot. And he did so; whereupon a fountain of water sprang forth. ²⁴⁶ And it was said, This is cool water for thee to wash with, and to drink. So he washed himself and drank; and every disease that he had, external and internal, quitted him. And We gave unto him his family, and as many more with them (that is, God raised to life for him those of his children who had died, and blest him with as many more), ²⁴⁷ in Our mercy and as an admonition unto those who are endowed with faculties of understanding. [And We said unto him,] Take in thy hand a handful of dry grass, or of tiwigs, ²⁴⁸ and strike with it thy wife (for he had sworn that he would inflict upon her a hundred blows, because she had staid away from him too long one day ²⁴⁹ by abstaining from striking her.–So he took a hundred stalks of schoemanthus, or some other plant, and gave her one blow with them. Verily We found him a patient person. How excellent a servant was he! For he was one who earnestly turned himself unto God. (xxxviii. 40–44.)