Job

Job 1 - Job and His Family, Attack on Job’s Character, Job Loses Property and Children

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from...

Job 2 - Attack on Job’s Health, Job’s Three Friends

One day the heavenly beings[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b] also came among them to present himself before...

Job 3 - Job Curses the Day He Was Born

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job said: 3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night...

Job 4 - Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking? 3 See, you...

Job 5 - Job Is Corrected by God

“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy...

Job 6 - Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Then Job answered: 2 “O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For then it would be heavier than the...

Job 7 - My Suffering Is without End

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? 2 Like a slave who longs for the...

Job 8 - Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: 2 “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 3 Does God pervert...

Job 9 - Job Replies: There Is No Mediator

Then Job answered: 2 “Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God? 3 If one wished to contend with him, one...

Job 10 - I Loathe My Life

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say to God, Do not...

Job 11 - Zophar Speaks: Job’s Guilt Deserves Punishment

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: 2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated? 3 Should...

Job 12 - Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock

Then Job answered: 2 “No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not...

Job 13 - Job’s Despondent Prayer

“Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. 2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3 But I...

Job 14 - Job’s Despondent Prayer Continued

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, 2 comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last....

Job 15 - Eliphaz Speaks: Job Undermines Religion

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 2 “Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind? 3 Should they...

Job 16 - Job Reaffirms His Innocence

Then Job answered: 2 “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. 3 Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you...

Job 17 - Job Prays for Relief

My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. 2 Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their...

Job 18 - Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: 2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak. 3 Why are we counted as cattle?...

Job 19 - Job Replies: I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Then Job answered: 2 “How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;...

Job 20 - Zophar Speaks: Wickedness Receives Just Retribution

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: 2 “Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me. 3 I hear...

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