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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, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfWanderersWhere From?SatanThe Devil

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

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

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

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

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

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

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsMessengerPloughingTilling The SoilAnimals Eating

While he was still speaking, another also came 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.”

Verse ConceptsLightningLossSuffering, Causes OfWeather, God's Sovereignty OverConflagrationsActing AloneBurning PeopleWhile Still Speaking

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Verse ConceptsCamelsActing AloneThree GroupsWhile Still SpeakingTaking Animals

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

Verse ConceptsWhile Still Speaking

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfWanderersWhere From?wandering

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

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfFalse Accusations, Examples OfHuman SkinSeeking LifeOld Sayings

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemy, Examples OfBlameWivesBad Wives ExamplesHolding FastTemptressesCursing GodWife

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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

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

Verse ConceptsGriefWeeksSeven DaysSitting In FellowshipIndividuals Being SilentLosing Friendsgrieving

Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

Verse ConceptsSighingIndigestion

“Have I said, ‘Give me something,’
Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,’

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Bribes

Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All PeopleTargetsWe Have Sinned

“Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,’

Verse ConceptsComplaintsComplaining

“For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

Verse ConceptsSound DoctrinePlea Of Innocence

“You put my feet in the stocks
And watch all my paths;
You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

“Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

Verse Conceptsdistrust

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsTargetsThose At Ease

“His strength is famished,
And calamity is ready at his side.

Verse ConceptsCynicismWithout Strength

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfRootsDestruction Of PlantsWithout Hope

“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Verse ConceptsGuestsReckoned As Foreigners

“Though evil is sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,

Verse ConceptsMouthsSin, Love OfSweetnessThe Tonguewickedness

“Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes,

Verse ConceptsChildren Blessed

“They said to God, ‘Depart from us!’
And ‘What can the Almighty do to them?’

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodQuerying God's Power

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

“If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

Verse ConceptsAstronomyShiningSun Moon And Stars Before GodThe Moon

Then Job continued his discourse and said,

“The path no bird of prey knows,
Nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

Verse ConceptsVulturesFalconsUnknown ThingsBirds

When He set a limit for the rain
And a course for the thunderbolt,

Verse ConceptsRainThunderGod Sending RainGod Controlling The Rain

And Job again took up his discourse and said,

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,

Verse ConceptsCity SquaresSitting In The Gateway

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,
And dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who comforted the mourners.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted, Duty To ThemLearning The Right WayHuman ComfortNature Of Kings

“Have the men of my tent not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said,
“I am young in years and you are old;
Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think.

Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifeYouthLimitations Of Youth

“His flesh wastes away from sight,
And his bones which were not seen stick out.

Verse ConceptsWasteThin Bodies

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;

Verse ConceptsIs God Unjust?Plea Of Innocence

“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
When he is pleased with God.’

Verse ConceptsFutilityProfitsInfidelity To God

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Verse ConceptsAfflictions As Blessings In DisguiseWork Ethic

Then Elihu continued and said,

Then Elihu continued and said,

Verse Conceptsfitness

“Wait for me a little, and I will show you
That there is yet more to be said in God’s behalf.

Verse ConceptsBe Patient!Being PatientWaiting For God's Timing

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And that which was set on your table was full of fatness.

Verse ConceptsMessianic BanquetTablesFat Of Animals

“Who has appointed Him His way,
And who has said, ‘You have done wrong’?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodIs God Unjust?

Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the line on it?

Verse Conceptsmeasurement

And I placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,

Verse ConceptsShutting Doorslimitations

And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Verse ConceptsWavesDivine Power Over NatureMighty in its influenceThe Ocean

Then the Lord said to Job,

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

Verse Conceptsanswers

Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said,

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of

Behold, your expectation is false;
Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?

Verse ConceptsVisionWithout Hope

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends