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Job 1
There was an extremely pious and prosperous man named Job. Satan asserts that Job is pious only because he is prosperous, and in response, God gives Satan permission to destroy Job's possessions and family. All of Job's possessions are destroyed and his offspring killed. Job's response is to worship the Lord.
People: Job - יהוה YHVH - Satan - Sabeans - Chaldeans
Places: Land of Uz
Related Articles: Sacrifice
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Satan solicits God's permission to afflict Job with boils. His wife prompts him to "curse God, and die" but Job refuses. Three of Job's friends come to comfort him.
People: יהוה YHVH - Satan - Job - Job's wife - Eliphaz - Bildad - Zophar
Related Articles: Boil - Temanite - Shuah - Naamathite
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Job begins to express his misery. He longs for death and wishes he had never been born.
Related Articles: Suffering - Lament
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Eliphaz tells Job that those who are truly good are never entirely forsaken by Providence, but that punishment may justly be inflicted for secret sins.
Related Articles: Temanite
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Eliphaz tells Job to trust in God and not to lose faith in the face of adversity. "Happy is the man whom God corrects," he says, and that God will deliver him.
People: Eliphaz - God Almighty
Related Articles: Divine Providence
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Job maintains that his suffering is unjustified as he has not sinned, and that there is no reason for God to punish him. However, he does not curse God's name or accuse God of injustice but rather seeks an explanation or an account of his wrongdoing.
People: Job - God Almighty the Holy One
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Job complains about his illness, of having nightmares and says that death is preferable to life in his condition. He admits he is a sinner, and begs God for mercy and deliverance.
People: Job
Related Articles: Boil - Sheol - Nightmare - Sin
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Bildad the Shuhite offers his opinion of Job's predicament. He posits that Job's children must have been sinful and that "God will not cast away a perfect man."
People: Bildad
Related Articles: Shuhite
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Job answers Bildad and asks how a man can defend himself before God. He wishes for a mediator between man and God.
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Job speaks in bitterness and confusion. He wants to ask God why he's being punished while wickedness goes unpunished.
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Zophar the Naamathite suggests that Job's suffering could be divine punishment.
Related Articles: Naamathite
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Job responds to Zophar and says that the world is in God's hands.
Related Articles: Divine Providence
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Job tells his friends that they have misunderstood the situation. He maintains that he is righteous and asks God to point out his sins.
Related Articles: Righteousness
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Job talks about life and death and what happens to man after death. "Man gives up the ghost, and where is he?" "If a man die, shall he live again?"
Related Articles: Divine retribution - Suffering - Death - Afterlife - Sin
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Eliphaz denies that any man is innocent and censures Job for asserting his freedom from guilt.
People: Eliphaz (Job) - God Almighty
Related Articles: Vanity - Prayer - Wisdom - Righteousness
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Job tells his friends that they are not being helpful, and that their words are of no comfort to him. He wishes that he had someone to plead with God for him.
Related Articles: Divine retribution - Sackcloth - Prayer
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Job again speaks of death and says he is ready and waiting to return to dust.
People: Job
Related Articles: Death - Grave (burial) - Mockery - Flattery - Hypocrisy - Righteousness - Putrefaction
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Bildad the Shuite offers a few proverbs about wickedness and punishment, maintaining that Job's misfortune must be the result of sin.
People: Bildad
Related Articles: Shuah - Proverb - Sin
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Job says that his friends and family have all turned against him. Yet he proclaims, "I know that my redeemer lives."
Related Articles: Divine Providence - Persecution - Afterlife
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Zophar replies to Job angrily and goes into great detail about the consequences of living a life of sin.
Related Articles: Naamathite
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Job argues that the wicked are not always punished here on Earth and that many of them live long, prosperous lives.
Related Articles: Cattle - Timbrel - Harp - Last Judgment
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 22
Eliphaz makes accusations against Job and says that Job has turned away from God.
People: Eliphaz - God Almighty
Related Articles: Righteousness - Torah
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Job wants to defend himself before God, but he says that God is hiding from him.
Related Articles: Divine judgment - Divine presence
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Job says that sin abounds and goes unpunished, but that God will judge all sinners.
People: Job - God Almighty
Related Articles: Theft - Poverty - Charity - Murder - Robbery - Divine judgement
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Bildad the Shuhite briefly interjects that lowly man cannot compare himself to the greatness of God.
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Job agrees with Bildad that God is far mightier than man, but he fails to find that knowledge useful in his situation.
Related Articles: Sheol - Heaven - Ruach HaKodesh
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 27
Job maintains that he has behaved righteously. He describes the punishment that the wicked receive from God.
People: Job - God Almighty - Spirit of God
Related Articles: Evil - Deception - Hypocrisy - Punishment - Death
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Job says that man knows where to find precious metals and jewels and even bread and water, but doesn't know where to look for wisdom.
Related Articles: Silver - Gold - Sapphire - Onyx - Topaz - Wisdom
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Job longs for the way his life used to be. He misses his children and his respected position in the community.
Related Articles: City gate - Nobility - Poverty - Diadem
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Job says that he has become the object of ridicule in the community because of his affliction.
Related Articles: Self-pity - Mourning
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 31
Job says that God knows his integrity. He talks about the good things he's done and says he doesn't deserve God's punishment.
Related Articles: Omniscience - Pride - Boasting - Charity (practice)
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 32
A young man named Elihu, angry at Job's self-justification, decides to interject his opinion. He says he spoke last because he is much younger than the other three friends, but says that age makes no difference when it comes to insights and wisdom.
People: Job - Elihu - God Almighty
Related articles: Barachel - Buz - Ram - Respect - Filial piety - Wisdom
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Elihu says that God is greater than man, that He chastens man with suffering, and He delivers man's soul from the grave.
People: Elihu - Job - Spirit of God - God Almighty
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Elihu strongly condemns the approach taken by the three friends, and argues that Job is misrepresenting God's righteousness and discrediting his loving character.
People: Elihu - Job - God Almighty
Related Articles: Divine judgment - Evil - Righteousness - Omniscience
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Elihu asks Job if he thinks he is more righteous than God. He says that we should continue to seek happiness in God.
Related Articles: Righteousness - Sin - Divine judgment - Cloud
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In his speech, Elihu argues for God's power, redemptive salvation, and absolute rightness in all his conduct. God is mighty, yet just, and quick to warn and to forgive.
Related Articles: Knowledge - Righteousness - King - Sin - Discipline - Obedience (human behavior) - Prosperity - Hypocrisy - Poverty - Oppression - Omnipotence - Cloud - Divine judgment - Cattle
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 37
Elihu acts in a prophetic role preparatory to the appearance of God. He draws instances of benignity from, for example, the constant wonders of creation and of the seasons.
People: Elihu - God Almighty - Job
Related Articles: Omnipotence - Divine Providence - Divine judgment
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 38
In a divine voice, described as coming from a "cloud" or "whirlwind", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.
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God's answer underscores that Job shares the world with numerous powerful and remarkable creatures. God's speech also emphasizes his sovereignty in creating and maintaining the world.
Related Articles: Goat - Birth - Donkey - Unicorn - Peafowl - Ostrich - Horse - Hawk
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 40
God challenges Job to compare himself with God's judgment, strength and glory. He draws attention to the marvelous strength of the behemoth.
People: יהוה YHVH Almighty God - Job
Places: Jordan River
Related Articles: Humility - Whirlwind - Divine judgment - Pride - Behemoth
English Text: American Standard - Douay-Rheims - Free - King James - Jewish Publication Society - Tyndale - World English - WycliffeJob 41
God describes in detail the size and power of leviathan and asks Job whether he could master such a beast.
Related Articles: Leviathan - Scale (zoology) - Millstone
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God condemns Job's friends for their ignorance and lack of understanding. Job is restored to health, gaining double the riches he possessed before and having 7 sons and 3 daughters. Job is blessed once again and lives on another 140 years.
People: Job - יהוה YHVH - Eliphaz - Bildad - Zophar - Jemima - Keziah - Keren-happuch
Related articles: Divine retribution - Sacrifice - Divine providence
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