Job (GOD'S WORD)








































Job 1:6-12  (GOD'S WORD)

    6One day when the sons of God came to stand in front of  the LORD, Satan the Accuser came along with them.
    7The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?"
     Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth."
    8The LORD asked Satan, "Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil."
    9Satan answered the LORD, "Haven't you given Job a reason to fear God? 10Haven't you put a protective fence around him, his home, and everything he has? You have blessed everything he does. His cattle have spread out over the land. 11But now stretch out your hand, and strike everything he has, I bet he'll curse you to your face."
  12The LORD told Satan, "Everything he has is in your power, but you must not lay a hand on him!"
                Then Satan left the LORD'S presence.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


























 
 
 

Job 1:13-19  (GOD'S WORD)

     13One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s home, 14a messenger came to Job. He said, “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15men from Sheba attacked. They took the livestock and massacred the servants. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
    16While he was still speaking, another bmessengern came and said, “A fire from God fell from heaven and completely burned your flocks and servants. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
    17While he was still speaking, another bmessengern came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three companies and made a raid on the camels. They took the camels and massacred the servants. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you."
        18While he was still speaking, another bmessengern came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine at their oldest brother’s home 19when suddenly a great storm swept across the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It fell on the young people, and they died. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”

 










































 

Job 2:3-6  (GOD'S WORD)

    3 The LORD asked Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil. And he still holds on to his principles. You’re trying to provoke me into ruining him for no reason.”
    4Satan answered the LORD, “Skin for skin! Certainly, a man will give everything he has for his life. 5But stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bones. I bet he’ll curse you to your face.”
    6The LORD told Satan, “He is in your power, but you must spare his life!"
    7Satan left the LORD’s presence and struck Job with painful boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. 8Job took a piece of broken pottery to
scratch himself as he sat in the ashes.
    9His wife asked him, “Are you still holding on to your principles? Curse God and die!”
    10He said to her, “You’re talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Shouldn’t we also accept the bad?” Through all this Job’s lips did not utter one sinful word.
    11When Job’s three friends heard about all the terrible things that had happened to him, each of them came from his home—Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, Zophar of Naama. They had agreed they would go together to sympathize with Job and comfort him.
    12When they saw him from a distance, they didn’t even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept, and each of them tore his own clothes [in grief]. They threw dust on their heads. 13Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him because they saw that he was in such great pain.









































Job 3:20-26  (GOD'S WORD)

    20 “Why give light to one in misery
            and life to those who find it so bitter,
    21         to those who long for death but it never comes—
                    though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?
     22         They are ecstatic,
                    delighted to find the grave.

    23 Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden,
            to those whom God has fenced in?

    24 “When my food is in front of me, I sigh.
        I pour out my groaning like water.
    25 What I fear most overtakes me.
        What I dread happens to me.
    26        I have no peace!
               I have no quiet!
               I have no rest!
                And trouble keeps coming!”









































Job 7:1-10  (GOD'S WORD)

    1 “Isn’t a mortal’s stay on earth difficult
            like a hired hand’s daily {work} ?
    2 Like a slave, he longs for shade.
       Like a hired hand, he eagerly looks for his pay.
    3      Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use,
                and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
    4              When I lie down, I ask,
                   ‘When will I get up?’
                       But the evening is long,
                           and I’m exhausted from tossing about until dawn.
    5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs.
        My skin is crusted over with sores; then they ooze.
    6 My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.
        They are spent without hope.
    7 Remember, my life is only a breath,
        and never again will my eyes see anything good.
    8 The eye that watches over me will no longer see me.
        Your eye will look for me, but I’ll be gone.
    9 As a cloud fades away and disappears,
            so a person goes into the grave and doesn’t come back again.
    10         He doesn’t come back home again,
                    and his household doesn’t recognize him anymore.









































Job 18:5-21 (GOD'S WORD)

WHAT A WICKED PERSON CAN EXPECT FROM LIFE

      5    “Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out.
                The flame of his fire stops glowing.
    6           The light in his tent becomes dark,
                    and the lamp above him is snuffed out.

    7         “His healthy stride is shortened,
                    and his own planning trips him up.
    8          His own feet get him tangled in a net
                    as he walks around on its webbing.
    9                 A trap catches his heel.
                      A snare holds him.
    10               A rope is hidden on the ground for him.
                      A trap is on his path [to catch] him.

    11     “Terrors suddenly pounce on him from every side
                and chase him every step he takes.
    12     Hunger undermines his strength.
            Disaster is waiting beside him.
    13     His skin is eaten away by disease.
            Death’s firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body.
    14         He is dragged from the safety of his tent
                    and marched off to the king of terrors.
    15     Fire lives in his tent.
            Sulfur is scattered over his home.
    16         His roots dry up under him.
                His branches wither over him.
    17          All memory about him will vanish from the earth,
                    and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
    18         He will be driven from the light into the dark
                    and chased out of the world.
    19         He will not have any children or descendants among his people
                    or any survivor where he used to live.
    20      People in the west are shocked by what happens to him.
             People in the east are seized with horror.
    21 This is what happens to the homes of wicked people
            and to those who do not know God.






















 

















Job 26:5-14 (GOD'S WORD)

5    “The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water,
            and so do the creatures living there.
6     Sheol is naked in God’s presence,
            and Abaddon has no clothing.

7     “He stretches out his heavensa over empty space.
            He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever.
8     He holds the water in his thick clouds,
            and the clouds don’t {even} split under its {weight} .
9     He covers his throne
            by spreading his cloud over it.
10     He marks the horizon on the surface of the water
            at the boundary where light meets dark.
11     The pillars of heaven tremble
            and are astonished when he yells at them.
12             With his power he calmed the sea.
                With his insight he killed Rahab {the sea monster} .
13             With his wind the sky was cleared.
                With his hand he stabbed the fleeing snake.

14     “These are only glimpses of what he does.
            We {only} hear a whisper of him!
            Who can understand the thunder of his power?”











































Job 30:24-31 (GOD'S WORD)

    24 “But God doesn’t stretch out his hand against one who is ruined when that person calls for help in his disaster.
    25 Didn’t I cry for the person whose days were difficult? Didn’t my soul grieve for the poor?
    26 When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came.
    27 My insides are churning and won’t calm dowN.Days of misery are ahead of me.
    28 I walk in the dark without the sun. I stand up in public and call for help.
    29 I’m a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
    30 My skin turns dark and peels. My body burns with fever.
    31 So my lyre is used for mourning and my flute for loud weeping.












































Job 31:1-4 (GOD'S WORD)

1    "I have made an agreement with my eyes.
         Then how can I look with lust at a virgin?
2    What would God above do {to me}?
      What would be my inheritance from the Almighty on high?
3    Aren't there catastrophes for wicked people
          and disasters for those who do wrong?
4     Doesn't he see my ways
          and count all my steps?










































Job 38:7 (GOD'S WORD)

7   when the morning stars sang together
          and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 






















 

Job 39:19-25 (GOD'S WORD)

THE HORSE

19  “Can you give strength to a horse
            or dress its neck with a flowing mane?
20  Can you make it leap like a locust,
            when its snorting causes terror?
21          It paws in strength and finds joy in its power.
            It charges into battle.
22         It laughs at fear,
                is afraid of nothing,
                    and doesn’t back away from swords.
23         A quiver of arrows rattles on it
                along with the flashing spear and javelin.
24         Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground
                and doesn’t trust the sound of the ram’s horn.
25         As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, ‘Aha!’
                and it smells the battle far away—
                    the thundering borders of the captains and the battle cries.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

































Job 41:12-34 (GOD'S WORD)

12    “I will not be silent about Leviathan’s limbs,
            its strength, or its graceful form.
13     Who can skin its hide?
       Who can approach it with a harness?
14     Who can open its closed mouth?
        Its teeth are surrounded by terror.
15     Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.
16         One is so close to the other
                that there is no space between them.
17         Each is joined to the other.
                They are locked together and inseparable.
18    When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light.
       Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn.
19         Flames shoot from its mouth.
            Sparks of fire fly from it.
20          Smoke comes from its nostrils
                like a boiling pot heated over brushwood.
21     Its breath sets coals on fire,
            and a flame pours from its mouth.
22     Strength resides in its neck,
            and power dances in front of it.
23     The folds of its flesh stick to each other.
            They are solid and cannot be moved.
24     Its chest is solid like a rock,
            solid like a millstone.

25     “The mighty are afraid when Leviathan rises.
            Broken down, they draw back.
26     A sword may strike it but not pierce it.
            Neither will a spear, lance, or dart.
27             It considers iron to be like straw
                    and bronze to be like rotten wood.
28     An arrow won’t make it run away.
            Stones from a sling turn to dust against it.
29             It considers clubs to be like stubble,
                    and it laughs at a rattling javelin.
30     Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery.
        It stretches out like a threshingd sledge on the mud.
31         It makes the deep sea boil like a pot.
            It stirs up the ocean like a boiling kettle.
32         It leaves a shining path behind it
                so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.
33     Nothing on land can compare to it.
            It was made fearless.
34     It looks down on all high things.
            It is king of everyone who is arrogant.”








































Job 42:5-6 (GOD'S WORD)

    1Then Job answered the LORD,
    2 “I know that you can do everything and that your plans are unstoppable.
    3 “[You said,]‘Who is this that belittles my advice without having any knowledge [about it]?’ Yes, I have stated things I didn’t understand, things too mysterious for me to know.
    4 “[You said,]‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will ask you, and you will teach me.’5I had heard about you with my own ears,but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
    6    That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry."