JOB

Passages on this topic · 42

• Job 1:1

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

• Job 1:3

  His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

• Job 1:5

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

• Job 1:8

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

• Job 1:13

  It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 1:14

  that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

• Job 1:15

  and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:16

  While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:17

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:18

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 1:19

  and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:20

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Job 1:22

  In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

• Job 2:3

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

• Job 2:7

  So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

• Job 2:8

  He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

• Job 2:9

  Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

• Job 2:10

  But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

• Job 2:11

  Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

• Job 2:12

  When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

• Job 2:13

  So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

• Job 40:3

  Then Job answered Yahweh,

• Job 40:4

  “Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

• Job 40:5

  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

• Job 42:1

  Then Job answered Yahweh,

• Job 42:2

  “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

• Job 42:3

  You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

• Job 42:4

  You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

• Job 42:5

  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

• Job 42:6

  Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• Job 42:10

  Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

• Job 42:11

  Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

• Job 42:12

  So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• Job 42:13

  He had also seven sons and three daughters.

• Job 42:14

  He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

• Job 42:15

  In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

• Job 42:16

  After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

• Job 42:17

  So Job died, being old and full of days.

• Ezekiel 14:14

  though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 14:20

  though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

• James 5:11

  Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.