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Today's Bible Reading :: Job 8 - 10 (ESV)

Job 8Listen to the passage

Job 9Listen to the passage

Job 10Listen to the passage

Job 8

Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:2 - “How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:3 - Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:4 - If your children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:5 - If you will seek God
and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:6 - if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore your rightful habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 - And though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what the fathers have searched out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:10 - Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:11 - “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:13 - Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:14 - His confidence is severed,
and his trust is a spider’s web.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:16 - He is a lush plant before the sun,
and his shoots spread over his garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:18 - If he is destroyed from his place,
then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of the soil others will spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 - He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:22 - Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew house

Job 9

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:1 - Then Job answered and said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:2 - “Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be in the right before God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:4 - He is wise in heart and mighty in strength—
who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 - he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
when he overturns them in his anger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:6 - who shakes the earth out of its place,
and its pillars tremble;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
who seals up the stars;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:8 - who alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:9 - who made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:10 - who does great things beyond searching out,
and marvelous things beyond number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:11 - Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:12 - Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:13 - “God will not turn back his anger;
beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:14 - How then can I answer him,
choosing my words with him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:15 - Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;
I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:16 - If I summoned him and he answered me,
I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:17 - For he crushes me with a tempest
and multiplies my wounds without cause;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18 - he will not let me get my breath,
but fills me with bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:19 - If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:20 - Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:21 - I am blameless; I regard not myself;
I loathe my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:22 - It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:23 - When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[fn] of the innocent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the faces of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:25 - “My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:27 - If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28 - I become afraid of all my suffering,
for I know you will not hold me innocent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:29 - I shall be condemned;
why then do I labor in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:30 - If I wash myself with snow
and cleanse my hands with lye,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 - yet you will plunge me into a pit,
and my own clothes will abhor me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:32 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:33 - There is no[fn] arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:34 - Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not dread of him terrify me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:35 - Then I would speak without fear of him,
for I am not so in myself.
ESV Footnotes
Or to my judge
Or who can grant me a hearing?
The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Or Would that there were an

Job 10

Job Continues: A Plea to God

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:2 - I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:4 - Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:5 - Are your days as the days of man,
or your years as a man’s years,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:6 - that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:7 - although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:8 - Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that you have made me like clay;
and will you return me to the dust?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:13 - Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 - If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:15 - If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - And were my head lifted up,[fn] you would hunt me like a lion
and again work wonders against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:17 - You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:18 - “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:20 - Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go—and I shall not return—
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
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Hebrew lacks my head
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