Chapter 1
Job Was Greatest of the Sons of the East
[Job 1:5 LSB] Now it happened when the days of feasting had completed their cycle, that Job would send and set them apart as holy. And he would rise up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of them all; for Job said, "Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
All Job Has Is in Satan’s Hand
Messengers Speak of the Fire of God
[Job 1:20-22 LSB] Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh." Through all this Job did not sin, nor did he give offense to God.
Chapter 2
Satan Strikes Job’s Flesh
[Job 2:10 LSB] But he said to her, "You speak as one of the wickedly foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept calamity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Job’s Three Friends
Chapter 3
Job Curses the Day of His Birth
[Job 3:1 LSB] Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his [birth].
[Jhn 9:2-3 LSB] And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but [this was] so that the works of God might be manifested in him.
Chapter 4
Eliphaz Says the Innocent Do Not Suffer
The Discipline of the Almighty
Chapter 6
Job Answers Eliphaz
[Job 6:14 LSB] "For the despairing man lovingkindness [should be] from his friend; But he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Bildad Claims God Rewards the Good
Chapter 9
Job Replies There Is No Adjudicator
[Job 9:32-33 LSB] "For [He is] not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court [for judgment] together. "There is no adjudicator between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.
Chapter 10
Job Cries Out to God
[Job 10:8-12 LSB] 'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You swallow me up? 'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again? 'Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese, Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews? 'You have made alongside me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has kept my spirit.
Zophar Asks, Can You Find the Depths of God?
Chapter 12
Job Answers
Job Speaks of God’s Strength
[Job 12:13 LSB] "With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and discernment.
[Job 12:22 LSB] "He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings out the shadows of death into light.
Chapter 13
I Will Be Declared Righteous
[Job 13:3 LSB] "But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to argue with God.
[Job 13:15-16 LSB] "Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. "This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before His presence.
If a Man Dies, Will He Live Again?
[Job 14:14 LSB] "If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my labor I will wait Until my change comes.
Eliphaz Says Job’s Lips Answer Against Him
Chapter 16
Troublesome Comforters
[Job 16:19-20 LSB] "Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high. "My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
Chapter 17
Job Seeks Hope
Bildad Speaks of the Downfall of the Wicked
Chapter 19
My Redeemer Lives
[Job 19:25-27 LSB] "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will rise up over the dust [of this world]. "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall behold God, Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Zophar Says the Joy of the Wicked Is Short
God Does Not Punish the Wicked
Chapter 28
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
[Job 28:20 LSB] "Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
[Job 28:23, 28 LSB] "God understands its way, And He knows its place. ... "So He said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Chapter 29
Job Continues His Discourse
[Job 30:30-31 LSB] "My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever. "Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
[Job 31:1 LSB] "I have cut a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin?
[Pro 6:25 LSB] Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.
[Mat 5:28 LSB] but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Chapter 32
Elihu Answers in Anger
[Job 32:2 LSB] But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned; against Job his anger burned because he was proving himself righteous before God.
Elihu Asks Job to Hear and Respond
Elihu Answers That God Will Be Just
Elihu Answers Job
Elihu Says God Gives the Afflicted Justice
[Job 36:15 LSB] "He delivers the afflicted in their affliction, And opens their ear in [time of] oppression.
Chapter 37
Elihu Speaks of God’s Voice
[Job 37:13-14 LSB] "Whether for correction, or for His world, Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen. "Give ear to this, O Job, Stand and carefully consider the wondrous deeds of God.
Yahweh Answers Job
[Job 38:7 LSB] When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Yahweh Answers Job, 'Have You?'
[Job 38:36 LSB] "Who has given wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind?
[Job 38:12-14 LSB] "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, [And] caused the dawn to know its place, That it might seize the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? "It is changed like clay [under] the seal; And they stand forth like clothing.
hāp̄aḵ to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around
[Job 38:36 LSB] "Who has given wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind?
Yahweh Answers Job, 'Where Were You?'
[Job 39:13-17 LSB] "The ostriches' wings flap joyously [But] are they the pinion and plumage of a stork? For she leaves her eggs to the earth And warms them in the dust, And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a beast of the field may trample them. "She treats her children cruelly, as if [they] were not hers; Though her labor be empty, [she] is without dread, Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.
Chapter 40
Job Places His Hand Over His Mouth
[Job 40:3-4 LSB] Then Job answered Yahweh and said, "Behold, I am insignificant; what can I respond to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Yahweh Will Ask Job
[Job 40:8 LSB] "Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?
Behold the Behemoth
Can You Draw Out Leviathan?
[Job 41:11 LSB] "Who has given to Me that I should repay [him]? [Whatever] is under the whole heaven is Mine.
Job Repents in Dust and Ashes
[Job 42:1-6 LSB] Then Job answered Yahweh and said, "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too marvelous for me, which I did not know. 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You make me know.' "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I reject [myself], And I repent in dust and ashes."
Yahweh’s Anger Towards Job’s Friends
Yahweh Restores Job’s Fortunes
[Job 42:10 LSB] And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.
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