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But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsIntegrityTemptation, ResistingAcceptance, Of InstructionResignationTemptressesCounted As FoolsGod Can Harm PeoplePeople Who Did RightOvercoming Hard TimesTragedyHardshipOvercoming Adversity

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Verse ConceptsFavouritismSecrecy

for [the] company of [the] godless [is] barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy


“Have you not asked those who travel this way,
And do you not recognize their witness?

Verse ConceptsTravellers

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

Verse ConceptsPartiality


“Shall God’s retribution [for your sins] be on your terms, because you refuse to accept it?
For you must do the choosing, and not I;
Therefore say what you [truthfully] know.

Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstInfidelity To GodChoosing God's Waytechnology

If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

Verse ConceptsGiving To God

But if a man call upon God, doth not he hear him? Doth not the Almighty accept his cry?

Verse ConceptsemptinessGod's WillGod Answering Prayers

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, 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.