World English Bible (Classic)

Job

42 chapters

Chapters

Job 1

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Job 2

Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

Job 3

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

Job 4

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Job 5

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 6

Then Job answered,

Job 7

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Job 8

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Job 9

Then Job answered,

Job 10

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 11

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

Job 12

Then Job answered,

Job 13

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

Job 14

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

Job 15

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Job 16

Then Job answered,

Job 17

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

Job 18

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Job 19

Then Job answered,

Job 20

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Job 21

Then Job answered,

Job 22

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Job 23

Then Job answered,

Job 24

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

Job 25

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Job 26

Then Job answered,

Job 27

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 28

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Job 29

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 30

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 31

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Job 32

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 33

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

Job 34

Moreover Elihu answered,

Job 35

Moreover Elihu answered,

Job 36

Elihu also continued, and said,

Job 37

“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

Job 38

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Job 39

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

Job 40

Moreover Yahweh answered Job,

Job 41

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 42

Then Job answered Yahweh: