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And his sons used to go and hold a feast {at each other's house} on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, ActivitiesInvitationsLeisure, And PastimesAmusementsCelebrationcelebrating

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

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

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

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

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,

Verse ConceptsSleeping Peacefully

or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

Verse ConceptsAbortiondoubt, results ofMiscarriagesNever Being BornMiscarriages And Stillborn

and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.

Verse ConceptsDesire For DeathRejoicing In Evil

"[If] someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartBalances, Metaphorical Usebalance

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyRash PeopleSand And Gravel

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Verse ConceptsDesire For DeathHear Prayer!

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Verse ConceptsDesire For Deathcrushes

Then should I still have comfort; yea, I would exult myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

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

Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.

Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

Verse ConceptsMonotonySlaves

If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsAnswered Promises

If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Verse ConceptsBlameRestorationRestoring ThingsMoving To A New Placeawakening

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceLaughterLife, HumanLipsShoutingLife Loved

If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand ThingsAnswering GodOthers Not AnsweringSuing God

"{If} he passes by me, {I would not see him}; and [if] he should move on, {I would not recognize him}.

Verse ConceptsInsightGod, Invisible

For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfJudgesBe Merciful!

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceGod Answered

For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

Verse ConceptsStormsWoundscrushesThe Storms Of Life

He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.

Verse ConceptsHaving No BreathBitternessCompetitionbreathingrelaxation

Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.

Verse ConceptsSelf CondemnationHuman ImperfectionPlea Of Innocencecondemnation

Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfPlea Of Innocence

I would still live in terror of all my pains.
I know You will not acquit me.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Other Things

Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.

Verse ConceptsClean, Spiritual Use

There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

Verse ConceptsArbitration

who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

Verse ConceptsStriking People With A StaffThose Frightened Of God

Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?

Verse ConceptsPlea Of Innocence

Your hands fashioned and made me altogether,
And would You destroy me?

Verse ConceptsGod Destroying

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

Verse ConceptsClayPouringClay, Figurative UseCreatures Returning To DustDeathdust

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

Verse ConceptsLifting HeadsSin Clings To The Sinner

And [if my head] grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.

Verse ConceptsLionsSelf RespectGod Like A LionLike Creatures

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationThe Witness Of GodHardship

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheUnborn FetusesNever Being Born

Would He not let my few days alone?
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfLeave Us Alone

And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NatureGod Gives WisdomWisdomLight

“Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
And you would be steadfast and not fear.

Verse ConceptsSteadfastnessLifting Headsfearlesssteadfast

“Your life would be brighter than noonday;
Darkness would be like the morning.

Verse ConceptsRadiancyNoonRadiant LivesLight Of God's PeopleSunshine

“You would lie down and none would disturb you,
And many would entreat your favor.

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestFavor

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Verse ConceptsReasoned ArgumentSuing God

Would you testify unjustly on God’s behalf
or speak deceitfully for Him?

Verse ConceptsGod Deceiving

Would you show partiality to Him
or argue the case in His defense?

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleDeceiving GodMan's Relation To God

Surely He would rebuke you
if you secretly showed partiality.

Verse ConceptsFavouritismSecrecy

Would God’s majesty not terrify you?
Would His dread not fall on you?

Verse ConceptsTerror Of God

Moreover, this [is] salvation to me, that [the] godless would not come {before him}.

Verse ConceptsThe Wicked Will PerishHypocrisydeliverance

Who [is] he who will contend with me? For {then} I would be silent, and I would pass away.

Verse Conceptsghosts

Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?

Verse ConceptsChaffFoliageharassment

O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.

Verse ConceptsAnswering GodGod's Desires

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSteps Of The Saints

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.

Verse ConceptsCoveringBagsSealsStoringGod Has Forgiven

For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.

Verse ConceptsGoadsShrewdnessCraftiness

And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Houses

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

Verse ConceptsMere Talkcriticism

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To Man

Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

Verse ConceptsHopelessness

With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!

Verse ConceptsGatesCreatures Returning To Dust


“And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, To GodPersonal ResponsibilityMistakesActing For OneselfError

If you really want to appear superior to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

Verse ConceptsHumiliation

To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;

Verse ConceptsBeggarsServants, BadBeggingOthers Not AnsweringExamples Of Bad Servants

Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Verse ConceptsBooksWritingBooks Of Prophecy

would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.

Verse ConceptsengravingToolsWritingIron Objects

But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Verse ConceptsRoots

That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat.

Verse ConceptsEvil Desires

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessProfitsSkepticismCharacter Of WickedWho Is God?Serving God

Who would denounce his behavior to his face?
Who would repay him for what he has done?

Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Verse ConceptsReasoned Argument

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Verse ConceptsPenitentWill God Pay Attention?

There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

Verse ConceptsrelaxingAcquitting The Just

“Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence;
When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

Verse ConceptsThose Frightened Of God


“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseDivision Of WatersOut Of The NorthGod Sending RainWaters DividingWork Ethiccloudsweight

Far be it from me that {I would say that you are right}; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

Verse ConceptsAs Long As Life LastsFar Be It!Man Vindicates

I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandTeaching The Way Of God