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When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's customary practice.

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, "Where have you come from?" And Satan answered the Lord, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfWanderersWhere From?SatanThe Devil

So the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil."

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

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Work OfBlessed By GodGod's ProtectionFamily FirstProtecting Your Familypossessions

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason."

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

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

Verse ConceptsAbortiondoubt, results ofMiscarriagesNever Being BornMiscarriages And Stillborn

I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me."

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalIndividuals TremblingRest

Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

Verse ConceptsPeople TeachingEncouraging OthersWeakness

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Verse ConceptsStumblingKind WordsKnees

I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of lifeRootsThe Work Of Fools

For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Care ForWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefullycovenantprincipalities

Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good."

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyRash PeopleSand And Gravel

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

Verse ConceptsNot Touching

Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Verse ConceptsGod, Holiness OfJoy, Of IsraelGod Is HolyPhysical PainDenying GodGod SpeakingPleasurablenessjoyfuldenialjoyfulness

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeBeing Scaredfriendliness

"Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'?

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Bribes

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Verse ConceptsLimitednessPunishment, Nature OfHirelingsThe Fact Of ToilstruggleWarLife StrugglesGetting Through Hard Timeshumanity

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

Verse ConceptsVanityUnrestUseless EndeavourFrustrationAssignment

If I have sinned -- what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All PeopleTargetsWe Have Sinned

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfThose Who Were IgnorantTime PassingWeather In The Last Days

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!'

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All The EarthGod In Relation To Man

"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

Verse ConceptsGod Destroying

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Verse ConceptsClayPouringClay, Figurative UseCreatures Returning To DustDeathdust

"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineGod's Things Concealed

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheUnborn FetusesNever Being Born

For you have said, 'My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'

Verse ConceptsSound DoctrinePlea Of Innocence

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Verse ConceptsInferioritySelf RespectSelf ExaltationI Am Unimportant

"Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General Knowledge

See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

Verse ConceptsGod Vindicatesvindication

You will call and I -- I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

Verse ConceptsAnswering GodGod's Desires

Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?

Verse ConceptsVain TalkUseless Words

"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofSensitivityNo Comfort

Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

Verse ConceptsTirednessWeary Of God

You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfPeople WitheredThin Bodies

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

Verse ConceptsSackcloth And AshesHorns Weakened

Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

Verse ConceptsFoolishness Of Men

These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

Verse ConceptsTen TimesWronging Other People

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, To GodPersonal ResponsibilityMistakesActing For OneselfError

My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

Verse ConceptsSkinTeethDamage To The BodyEscaping Evilmuscles

Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

Verse ConceptsMockery

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts --

Verse ConceptsTravellers

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked --

Verse ConceptsLength Of LifeEvil Ways

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltySteadfastness, Examples OffootstepsfootprintsExamples Of Following God

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

Verse ConceptsOvertaken By Darkness

They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

Verse ConceptsOvernightNaked In PovertyCold Weather

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHeatSheolSnowWeather, As God's JudgmentWaters Drying UpSinners Grasped By DeathPurgatory

"How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

Verse ConceptsArmsHelp The WeakNo Help

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

Verse ConceptsInsight

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

Verse ConceptsUseless PeopleLooking At God's Works

If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Verse ConceptsParents SinKilling Sons And Daughters

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingExcavationMinesPrecioustechnology

Destruction and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceRumoursThe DestroyerThe Fact Of Deathrumors

"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

Verse ConceptsBywordMockerySongsjoking

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

Verse ConceptsCreatures Returning To DustMarshes

You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofStrictness

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOstricheslonliness

If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit --

Verse ConceptsFeetLying

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

Verse ConceptsIf You Turn From God

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman DesiresEnticementAvoid AdulteryThe Love Of Women

then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

Verse ConceptsGrindingGrinding Food

For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

Verse ConceptsAdultery

"If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

Verse ConceptsEmployersMasters Duties Towards ServantsSlavesWhat Sin?

If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

Verse ConceptsAfflicted, Duty To Them

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfLifting Hands

if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfSatisfied With RichesWealth And Prosperity

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfDenying God

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him --

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfDuties To EnemiesPeople Without Mercy

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

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

if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

Verse ConceptsHiding SinsGuilt

if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

Verse ConceptsDisappointmentA Broken Heart

So do not say, 'We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!'

Verse ConceptsFalse Wisdom

"They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent

And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingPeople Being Silent

"But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!