Lexicon :: Strong's G2492 - iōb

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for[fn] all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, “God’s fire fell from heaven. It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.[fn]

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

So Satan left the LORD’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[fn]

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Job continued his discourse, saying:

Job continued his discourse, saying:

then let thorns grow instead of wheat

and stinkweed instead of barley.

The words of Job are concluded.

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

I paid close attention to you.

Yet no one proved Job wrong;

not one of you refuted his arguments.

But now, Job, pay attention to my speech,

and listen to all my words.

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me.

Be quiet, and I will speak.

For Job has declared, “I am righteous,

yet God has deprived me of justice.

What man is like Job?

He drinks derision like water.

“Job speaks without knowledge;

his words are without insight.”

Job opens his mouth in vain

and multiplies words without knowledge.

Listen to this, Job.

Stop and consider God’s wonders.

Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

The LORD answered Job:

Then Job answered the LORD:

Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

Then Job replied to the LORD:

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

So the LORD blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.