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.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.

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.

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.”

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

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

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.

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.”

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

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.

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.

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

And Job said,

Then Job answered,

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Then Job responded,

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Then Job responded,

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Then Job replied,

Then Job responded,

Then Job continued his discourse and said,

And Job again took up his discourse and said,

Let briars grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.

“I even paid close attention to you;
Indeed, there was no one who refuted Job,
Not one of you who answered his words.

“However now, Job, please hear my speech,
And listen to all my words.

“Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;
Keep silent, and let me speak.

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

“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,

‘Job speaks without knowledge,
And his words are without wisdom.

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,
Because he answers like wicked men.

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

“Listen to this, O Job,
Stand and consider the wonders of God.

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

Then the Lord said to Job,

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

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

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

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.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

And Job died, an old man and full of days.

even though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord God.

even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not deliver either their son or their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.