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Berean Standard Bible

Job

42 chapters

Chapters

Job 1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Job 2

On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

Job 3

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 4

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 5

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 6

Then Job replied:

Job 7

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Job 8

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 9

Then Job answered:

Job 10

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 11

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Job 12

Then Job answered:

Job 13

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

Job 14

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Job 15

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 16

Then Job answered:

Job 17

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Job 18

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 19

Then Job answered:

Job 20

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Job 21

Then Job answered:

Job 22

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 23

Then Job answered:

Job 24

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

Job 25

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 26

Then Job answered:

Job 27

Job continued his discourse:

Job 28

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Job 29

And Job continued his discourse:

Job 30

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

Job 31

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 32

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 33

“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Job 34

Then Elihu continued:

Job 35

And Elihu went on to say:

Job 36

And Elihu continued:

Job 37

“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

Job 38

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 39

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Job 40

And the LORD said to Job:

Job 41

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 42

Then Job replied to the LORD: