Job

Where the Bible names him

1. Job 1:1

   There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

2. Job 1:5

   And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

3. Job 1:8

   Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

4. Job 1:9

   Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

5. Job 1:14

   a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

6. Job 1:20

   Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

7. Job 1:22

   In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

8. Job 2:3

   Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

9. Job 2:7

   So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

10. Job 2:10

    “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

11. Job 2:11

    Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

12. Job 3:1

    After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

13. Job 3:2

    And this is what he said:

14. Job 6:1

    Then Job replied:

15. Job 9:1

    Then Job answered:

16. Job 12:1

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17. Job 16:1

    Then Job answered:

18. Job 19:1

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19. Job 21:1

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20. Job 23:1

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21. Job 26:1

    Then Job answered:

22. Job 27:1

    Job continued his discourse:

23. Job 29:1

    And Job continued his discourse:

24. Job 31:40

    then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

25. Job 32:1

    So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

26. Job 32:2

    This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

27. Job 32:3

    and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

28. Job 32:4

    Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

29. Job 32:12

    I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

30. Job 33:1

    “But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

31. Job 33:31

    Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

32. Job 34:5

    For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

33. Job 34:7

    What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

34. Job 34:35

    ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’

35. Job 34:36

    If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

36. Job 35:16

    So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

37. Job 37:14

    Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

38. Job 38:1

    Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

39. Job 40:1

    And the LORD said to Job:

40. Job 40:3

    Then Job answered the LORD: