Prologue
1There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.H376Job’s First Test
6One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.H3117Job’s Second Test
2One day the members of the heavenly court came again to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.H31172"Where have you come from?" the LORD asked Satan. Satan answered the LORD, "I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that's going on."H3068H559H7854H335H935H7854H6030H3068H559H7751H776H1980
3Then the LORD asked Satan, "Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause."H3068H559H7854H7760H3820H5650H347H776H8535H3477H376H3373H430H5493H7451H2388H8538H5496H1104H2600
4Satan replied to the LORD, "Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life.H7854H6030H3068H559H5785H5785H376H5414H5315
5But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!"H199H7971H3027H5060H6106H1320H1288H6440
6"All right, do with him as you please," the LORD said to Satan. "But spare his life."H3068H559H7854H3027H8104H5315
7So Satan left the LORD's presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.H3318H7854H3318H6440H3068H5221H347H7451H7822H3709H7272H6936
8Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.H3947H2789H1623H3427H8432H665
9His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die."H559H802H2388H8538H1288H430H4191
10But Job replied, "You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.H559H1696H259H5036H1696H1571H6901H2896H430H6901H7451H347H2398H8193 H7969H7453H8085H7451H935H935H376H4725H464H8489H1085H7747H6691H5284H3259H3162H935H5110H5162
New Testament
Job’s Three Friends Share His Anguish
11When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.H34712When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief.H5375H5869H7350H5234H5375H6963H1058H7167H376H4598H2236H6083H7218H8064
13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.H3427H776H7651H3117H7651H3915H1696H1697H7200H3511H3966H1431
H6605H347H6310H7043H3117 2He said.H347H6030H559 3"Let the day of my birth be erased, and the night I was conceived.H3117H6H3205H3915H559H1397H2029 4Let that day be turned to darkness. Let it be lost even to God on high, and let no light shine on it.H3117H2822H433H1875H4605H5105H3313 5Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own. Let a black cloud overshadow it, and let the darkness terrify it.H2822H6757H1350H6053H7931H3650H3117H1204 6Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.H3915H652H3947H2302H3117H8141H935H4557H3391 7Let that night be childless. Let it have no joy.H3915H1565H7445H935 8Let those who are experts at cursing—whose cursing could rouse Leviathan—curse that day.H5344H779H3117H6264H5782H3882 9Let its morning stars remain dark. Let it hope for light, but in vain; may it never see the morning light.H3556H5399H2821H6960H216H7200H6079H7837 10Curse that day for failing to shut my mother's womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble.H5462H1817H990H5641H5999H5869 11"Why wasn't I born dead? Why didn't I die as I came from the womb?H4191H7358H1478H3318H990 12Why was I laid on my mother's lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?H1290H6923H7699H3243 13Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace. I would be asleep and at rest.H7901H8252H3462H5117 14I would rest with the world's kings and prime ministers, whose great buildings now lie in ruins.H4428H3289H776H1129H2723 15I would rest with princes, rich in gold, whose palaces were filled with silver.H8269H2091H4390H1004H3701 16Why wasn't I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?H2934H5309H5768H7200H216 17For in death the wicked cause no trouble, and the weary are at rest.H7563H2308H7267H3019H3581H5117 18Even captives are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.H615H7599H3162H8085H6963H5065 19Rich and poor are both there, and the slave is free from his master.H6996H1419H5650H2670H113 20"Oh, why give light to those in misery, and life to those who are bitter?H216H5414H6001H2416H4751H5315 21They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.H2442H4194H2658H4301 22They're filled with joy when they finally die, and rejoice when they find the grave.H8056H1524H7797H4672H6913 23Why is life given to those with no future, those God has surrounded with difficulties?H1397H1870H5641H433H5526 24I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water.H585H935H6440H3899H7581H5413H4325 25What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true.H6343H6342H857H3025H935 26I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; only trouble comes."H7951H8252H5117H7267H935
135Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord! Praise him, you who serve the Lord,H1984H3050H1984H8034H3068H1984H5650H3068 2you who serve in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.H5975H1004H3068H2691H1004H430 3Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; celebrate his lovely name with music.H1984H3050H3068H2896H2167H8034H5273 4For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own special treasure.H3050H977H3290H3478H5459 5I know the greatness of the Lord—that our Lord is greater than any other god.H3045H3068H1419H113H430 6The Lord does whatever pleases him throughout all heaven and earth, and on the seas and in their depths.H3068H2654H6213H8064H776H3220H8415 7He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H214 8He destroyed the firstborn in each Egyptian home, both people and animals.H5221H1060H4714H120H929 9He performed miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his people.H7971H226H4159H8432H4714H6547H5650 10He struck down great nations and slaughtered mighty kings—H5221H7227H1471H2026H6099H4428 11Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.H5511H4428H567H5747H4428H1316H4467H3667 12He gave their land as an inheritance, a special possession to his people Israel.H5414H776H5159H5159H3478H5971 13Your name, O Lord, endures forever; your fame, O Lord, is known to every generation.H8034H3068H5769H2143H3068H1755H1755 14For the Lord will give justice to his people and have compassion on his servants.H3068H1777H5971H5162H5650 15The idols of the nations are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.H6091H1471H3701H2091H4639H120H3027 16They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see.H6310H1696H5869H7200 17They have ears but cannot hear, and noses but cannot smell.H241H238H3426H7307H6310 18And those who make idols are just like them, as are all who trust in them.H6213H982 19O Israel, praise the Lord! O priests—descendants of Aaron—praise the Lord!H1288H3068H1004H3478H1288H3068H1004H175 20O Levites, praise the Lord! All you who fear the Lord, praise the Lord!H1288H3068H1004H3878H3373H3068H1288H3068 21The Lord be praised from Zion, for he lives here in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!H1288H3068H6726H7931H3389H1984H3050
Job’s First Speech
3At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth.H310135Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord! Praise him, you who serve the Lord,H1984
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