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Job 25 - Bildad Speaks: How Can a Mortal Be Righteous Before God?

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: 2 “Dominion and fear are with God;[a] he makes peace in his high heaven. 3 Is there any number to his...

Job 26 - Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable

Then Job answered: 2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have assisted the arm that has no strength! 3 How you have...

Job 27 - Job Maintains His Integrity

Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty,[a] who has made my soul bitter,...

Job 28 - Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore....

Job 29 - Job Finishes His Defense

Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 “O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; 3 when his...

Job 30 - Job's Defense Continued

“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock....

Job 31 - Job's Defense Continued

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin? 2 What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage...

Job 32 - Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family...

Job 33 - Elihu Rebukes Job

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. 2 See, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. 3 My words declare...

Job 34 - Elihu Proclaims God’s Justice

Then Elihu continued and said: 2 “Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know; 3 for the ear tests words as the palate...

Job 35 - Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness

Elihu continued and said: 2 “Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’ 3 If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?...

Job 36 - Elihu Exalts God’s Goodness, Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Elihu continued and said: 2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf. 3 I will bring...

Job 37 - Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty Continued

“At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place. 2 Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes...

Job 38 - The Lord Answers Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins...

Job 39 - The Lord Answers Job

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,...

Job 40 - Job’s Response to God, God’s Challenge to Job

And the Lord said to Job: 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?[a] Anyone who argues with God must respond.” Job’s Response...

Job 41 - God’s Challenge to Job Continued

[a] “Can you draw out Leviathan[b] with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its...

Job 42 - Job Is Humbled and Satisfied, Job’s Friends Are Humiliated, Job’s Fortunes Are Restored

Then Job answered the Lord: 2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 ‘Who is this that hides...

Psalm 1 - The Two Ways

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; 2 but...

Psalm 2 - God’s Promise to His Anointed

Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,...

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