Job in the Bible

Meaning: he that weeps or cries

Exact Match

And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Phuvah, and Job and Shimron.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of Israel

Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you by following his instructions and obeying his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceSecrets To SuccessMoses, Significance OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversKings, How They Should ActTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!Success Through GodThe Law Given Through Moses

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSuperstitionConsecration

Their job was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the Lord's temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God's temple.

Verse Conceptsperformance

They were also over the burden bearers, and supervised all the workmen from job to job; and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

Verse ConceptsSecretary

If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."

Verse ConceptsPlottingKilling Israelites

When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Verse ConceptsCustomBad ParentsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenRising Early, Examples OfFamilies, Examples OfMorning DevotionsBurnt offeringOfferingsSonsWorldly Pleasures, Leads ToParents Duty To ChildrenRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyCursing GodMaking People HolyEarly RisingSacrificeKidsRoses

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

Verse ConceptsBehaviourJustice, In Believers' LivesServants Of The LordNames And Titles For SatanAcclaimingUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godservanthoodshunning

“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Verse ConceptsFingersevil, victory overGod, Purpose OfPainSatan, Kingdom OfSatan, Resistance ToSatan, Limitations OfSatan, Power OfLeaving God's PresenceSatanThe DevilThe Presence Of GodTestsexams

Now the day came when Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Verse ConceptsGod Is Holy

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInciting To EvilServants Of The LordFear Of God, Examples OfUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godshunning

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

Verse ConceptsAshesAshes Of Humiliation

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one 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 comfort him.

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseRobesSprinklingTearing Of ClothesWeepingSeeing At A DistanceDust On The HeadNot Recognising PeopleThose Who Tore Clothes

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

Verse ConceptsGriefWeeksSeven DaysSitting In FellowshipIndividuals Being SilentLosing Friendsgrieving


“How long will you say these things?
And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?


“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
And your lips with joyful shouting [if you are found blameless].

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceLaughterLife, HumanLipsShoutingLife Loved

[Job continued:] “Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General Knowledge

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered [Job] and said,


“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man?
And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’

Verse ConceptsTentsThe Wicked Will Perish

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,


“But the land is possessed by the man with power,
And the favored and honorable man dwells in it.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

Verse Conceptsaccounting

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Verse ConceptsThistlesThornsLast WordsWeed

and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

Verse ConceptsJustification, Necessity OfSelf Righteousness, And The GospelPeople In RighteousnessNamed People Angry With Others

But when he saw that the three men could not answer Job, he became angry.

Verse ConceptsThree MenOthers Not AnsweringNamed People Angry With Others


“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
I also will give you my opinion [about Job’s situation] and tell you plainly what I think.’

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.


“Beware if you say,
‘We have found wisdom;
God thrusts Job down [justly], not man [for God alone is dealing with him].’

Verse ConceptsFalse Wisdom

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent


“For God speaks once,
And even twice, yet no one notices it [including you, Job].

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's ThingsSpeaking Againspeakingattention

"If there's a messenger appointed to mediate for Job one out of a thousand to represent the man's integrity on his behalf,

Verse ConceptsInsightMediatorAmbassadors, Figurative UseAngels Looking After People

Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingEyes, Used Of GodVeilsGod's OmnipresenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleGod Seeing All People

My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

Elihu continued speaking [to Job] and said,

But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy?


“But you [Job] were full of judgment on the wicked,
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Verse ConceptsCondemnation Of The Wicked


“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of The Innocent


“Can you [Job] hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions

Verse ConceptsHuntingGod Feeds All The Earth

“Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth [to their young]?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?

Verse ConceptsWild GoatWhen?Deer Etc.Deer


“Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

Verse ConceptsdistrustThreshing Floor


“Have you [Job] made him leap like a locust?
The majesty of his snorting [nostrils] is terrible.

Verse ConceptsNosesCreatures JumpingNeighing And Braying


“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,
Stretching his wings toward the south [as winter approaches]?

Verse ConceptsSouthBirds, Types Of BirdsHawksFacing SouthFalconsflyingsoaring


Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him,
And [if you are so able] tread down the wicked where they stand.

Verse ConceptsAbasement Of The ProudAbasementBeing HumbleHumility And Pridehumblenesshumblecrushes


“[If you can do all this, Job, proving your divine power] then I [God] will also praise you and acknowledge
That your own right hand can save you.

Verse Conceptsconfessing


“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”

Verse ConceptsKings And Pridearrogance

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfIntercessory PrayerSeven AnimalsSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And they go -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite -- and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Verse ConceptsSheepYokesCamelsOwning LivestockA Thousand AnimalsSix ThousandEleven To Nineteen ThousandFamily ProblemsBlessings From GodEnd Of DaysBlessings And Prosperity

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulBad ParentsInheritance, MaterialParents Duty To ChildrenBeauty, In WomenInheritanceWomen's BeautyBeautiful Women

And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

Verse ConceptsGenerationsOld Age, Attainment OfFour GroupsAge At Death

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

Verse ConceptsExamples, GoodNoahThree MenSaving Oneself

Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

Verse ConceptsChildren SufferingSaving Oneself

It is like a man who left his house on a trip to another country. [Before leaving] he put his servants in charge of his affairs, giving each one a [particular] job to do, then he ordered the gatekeeper to stay alert [i.e., while he was gone].

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersHuman Authority, Nature OfMan Appointing

That servant will be happy when his master returns to find him doing [his job] well.

Verse ConceptsWorks Of Faith

Then the property manager said to himself, What am I going to do since my master is taking away my job? I am not strong enough to dig [i.e., as a farm laborer], and I am too ashamed to beg.

Verse ConceptsDestitutesBeggarsLordship, Human And DivinePoverty, Causes OfBeggingWorldly DilemmasExcavationSoliloquyShame Of Bad ConductWithout StrengthDeposingMoney Management

I know what I'll do so that people will welcome me into their homes when I'm dismissed from my job.'

Verse ConceptsWelcoming Other PeopleDeposingLosing A FriendLosing FriendsMoney Managementwelcome

For this world's "wisdom" is foolishness to God. For it is written [Job 5:13], "He [i.e., God] catches wise people in their cleverness."

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfCraftinessWorldly WisdomFalse WisdomFoolishness Of MenTaking Other PeopleOpportunityEducationThe WorldwiseFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

Thematic Bible



"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.


And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."


When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved, because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. read more.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow), read more.
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.


as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,


The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?


therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

"Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

Then Job answered the LORD and said:

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.


"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

"Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope, that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. read more.
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.


And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason."

My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.


"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.


For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.


For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.


And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.



And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.

And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason."

And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"

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

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.


But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.


Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.


So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die." read more.
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." read more.
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you."


Then Job answered the LORD and said: "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."

Then Job answered the LORD and said: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. read more.
'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.' I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."



And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. read more.
He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.


And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. And Job died, an old man, and full of days.


Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.


Then Job answered and said: "How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? read more.
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. "He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!


Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." read more.
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."


"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; read more.
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food. They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief. In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. "And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.


While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you."


Then Job answered and said: "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?


Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.


And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die."


He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.


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


I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.


"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer


I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.


"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?


Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.



And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"


And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.


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


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


because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. read more.
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.



Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."


And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


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


therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

"Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

Then Job answered the LORD and said:

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.


therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."


And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."


He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.


The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.


And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."


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


References

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