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• Job 24Bible

  Job 24 is the latter part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's third speech. Pointing to a world in which those who oppress the weak and those who sin under cover of darkness go unpunished, Job asks why God does not appoint times for judgment.

• Job 29Bible

  Job 29 is the chapter in which Job looks back with longing on his former days, when he lived under God's protection, was held in honor, and helped the poor. It opens Job's final extended defense (chapters 29–31).

• Job 32Bible

  Job 32 is the chapter in which the young Elihu first appears, after the debate between Job and his three friends has ended. Elihu is angry with both Job and the three friends, and he declares that, although he is young, he will speak.

• Job 19Bible

  Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.

• JobPeople

  Job is the central figure of the Book of Job, a righteous man who lived in the land of Uz. Amid suffering that cost him his possessions, his children, and his health, he lamented and protested before God; after encountering God, he was restored. The New Testament cites him as an example of patience.

• Job 31Bible

  Job 31 concludes Job's final defense. Job takes up lust, deceit, mistreatment of servants, neglect of the poor, trust in wealth, and idolatry one by one, swearing that if he had done any of them he would deserve punishment. In this way he asserts his innocence and demands an answer from God.

• Job 25Bible

  Job 25 contains the third and final speech of Job's friend Bildad. It exalts God's power and majesty and asserts that no human being can be righteous or pure before God. At six verses, it is the shortest speech in the dialogues of the Book of Job.

• Job's Three FriendsPeople

  Job's three friends are Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who appear in the Book of Job. They came to comfort Job in his suffering but went on to argue that his sins had caused it, and God rebuked them.

• Job 35Bible

  Job 35 contains Elihu's third speech. Elihu argues that human righteousness and sin have no effect on God, says that the empty cries of the proud go unanswered, and rebukes Job for speaking without knowledge.

• Job 6Bible

  Job 6 records Job's reply to the first speech of Eliphaz. Job protests that his suffering is heavier than the sand of the sea and rebukes his friends for offering no comfort, comparing them to streams that run dry.

• Job 8Bible

  Job 8 contains the first speech of Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad asserts that God does not pervert justice and urges Job to seek God, assuring him that if he is pure and upright, he will be restored.

• Job 42:7-10Bible Verses

  The closing scene of the Book of Job, in which God rebukes Job's three friends, accepts Job's intercessory prayer on their behalf, reverses Job's misfortune, and restores him twofold. Discussion frequently centers on what it means that Job spoke "the thing that is right" and on how the nature of his restoration should be understood.

• Job 1:21Bible Verses

  Job 1:21 records the words Job spoke after losing his possessions and his children in a single day: "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." It is regarded as a classic confession of faith in the midst of suffering and is frequently read at funeral services. Interpreters differ over whether the cause of suffering may rightly be attributed to God.

• Job 14:4Bible Verses

  Job 14:4 is part of Job's appeal to God concerning human frailty, in which he says that a "clean thing" cannot come out of an "unclean." In the Christian tradition, the verse is often cited as a proof text for original sin and the corruption of human nature.

• Job 1:6Bible Verses

  Job 1:6 opens the heavenly scene at the beginning of the Book of Job, relating that Satan came before the LORD along with the sons of God. It sets the stage for Job's suffering and is frequently cited in discussions of Satan's identity and God's sovereignty.

• Job 2:10Bible Verses

  In this verse Job answers his wife, who has urged him in his suffering to curse God, with the words "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" The verse is often cited in discussions of faith amid suffering. Interpreters debate how Job's wife should be assessed and what the phrase "with his lips" means.

• Job 1:20–22Bible Verses

  In this passage Job, having lost his possessions and his children all at once, grieves and yet falls down before God, confessing, "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away." The passage illustrates faith amid suffering and is frequently quoted at funerals and in settings of consolation.

• Job 19:25Bible Verses

  Job 19:25 is Job's confession in the midst of his suffering: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." The church has long read this verse as pointing to Christ and the hope of the resurrection, while scholars differ over the identity of the redeemer and what Job expected.

• Job 10:8–12Bible Verses

  Job 10:8–12 is part of Job's prayer of protest, in which he asks God why he would now destroy the one he so carefully made. Because the passage depicts God shaping a person in the womb, it is often cited in discussions of creation, providence, and the life of the unborn.

• Job 9:32–33Bible Verses

  A passage in which Job laments that there is no "daysman," or arbiter, to decide between God and himself. Christian tradition often reads it as an expression of longing for Christ the Mediator, and the passage also raises questions of translation and textual tradition.