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• Job 10Bible

  Job 10 is the chapter in which Job, while answering Bildad, turns to appeal directly to God. He asks why the God who formed him with His own hands now destroys him, and he pleads for even a brief respite before he dies.

• Job 2Bible

  Job 2 is the chapter in which Job, struck with sore boils over his entire body in a second trial, still does not sin with his lips, and in which his three friends come and sit with him in silence for seven days.

• Job 40Bible

  Job 40 contains Job's brief reply to God's first speech and the beginning of God's second speech, again delivered out of the whirlwind. God asks Job whether he can govern the world and directs him to consider the great beast Behemoth.

• Job 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Job introduces Job, a righteous man of the land of Uz. After Satan's challenge, Job loses all his possessions and children in a single day, yet he blesses the LORD and does not sin.

• Job 30Bible

  Job 30 is one of the chapters of Job's final extended defense. Contrasting his present condition with the former glory he recalled in chapter 29, Job laments that he is now mocked by the lowly and that when he cries out to God, he receives no answer.

• Job 3Bible

  Job 3 is the chapter in which Job breaks his silence, curses the day of his birth, and laments that it would have been better never to have been born or to have died at birth. The poetic dialogues of the Book of Job begin with this chapter.

• Job 26Bible

  Job 26 records Job's reply to Bildad's third speech. After mocking Bildad's attempt at comfort, Job extols God's creative power over Sheol, the heavens, and the sea, and declares that what human beings know of it is only a small part.

• Job 9Bible

  Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.

• Job 16Bible

  Job 16 is the first part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's second speech. Job calls his friends miserable comforters and laments the suffering he endures at God's hand, yet he confesses that his witness is in heaven.

• Job 37Bible

  Job 37 is the chapter in which Elihu concludes his long speech, pointing to natural phenomena such as thunder, lightning, snow, rain, and clouds as evidence of the unsearchable majesty of God.

• Job 23Bible

  Job 23 is the first part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's third speech. Job longs to come before God and present his case, but he laments that he cannot find God, and he confesses the fear he feels before God's will.

• Job 41Bible

  Job 41 is the chapter in which God, speaking out of the whirlwind, describes Leviathan, a great sea creature that no human can tame, showing Job the created order and God's sovereignty.

• Job 27Bible

  Job 27 is the chapter in which Job swears an oath by God and declares that he will never abandon his integrity, then describes the portion that the wicked will ultimately receive.

• Job 38Bible

  Job 38 is the chapter in which the LORD speaks directly to Job for the first time, out of the whirlwind. He poses a series of questions, each in effect asking "Do you know?", about the earth and the sea, light and the weather, the constellations, and wild animals.

• Job 42Bible

  Job 42 is the final chapter of the Book of Job. Job answers the LORD and repents. The LORD then rebukes Job's three friends and restores Job's fortunes, giving him twice as much as he had before.

• Job 39Bible

  Job 39 is part of God's first speech to Job out of the whirlwind. It presents a series of animals, including the wild goat, the wild donkey, the wild ox, the ostrich, the horse, the hawk, and the eagle, to show that God cares for a natural world that human beings can neither understand nor control.

• Job 12Bible

  Job 12 begins Job's reply to Zophar's first speech. Job mocks his friends' wisdom and offers an extended hymn to the sovereignty of God, who both establishes and overthrows the world.

• Job 17Bible

  Job 17 is the second half of Job's reply (chapters 16–17) to Eliphaz's second speech. Job laments that death is near, asks God himself to be his surety, and rebukes his friends for their lack of wisdom. At the end he asks where his hope can be in the face of the grave and Sheol.

• Job 14Bible

  Job 14 is the chapter in which Job laments to God the brevity and trouble of human life. Contrasting a tree, which sprouts again after it is cut down, with a human being, who dies and does not rise again, he raises the question of hope beyond death.