Job

Chapters

1. Job 1: Job 1: Job's integrity and the first losses
   The narrator introduces Job, a man in the land of Uz who is perfect and upright, fears God and avoids evil. He has seven sons, three daughters, large…
2. Job 2: Job 2: boils, Job's wife, and seven days of silence
   A second day comes when the sons of God present themselves before the Lord and Satan among them. The Lord again asks where Satan has come from and…
3. Job 3: Job 3: Job curses the day of his birth
   After the seven days of silence Job opens his mouth and curses his day. He calls for the day of his birth to perish and the night of his conception…
4. Job 4: Job 4: Eliphaz's first speech and the voice in the night
   Eliphaz the Temanite answers Job. He begins by asking whether Job will be grieved if they try to speak, and says no one can hold back. He reminds Job…
5. Job 5: Job 5: Eliphaz urges Job to seek God and accept correction
   Eliphaz continues the speech begun in chapter 4. He challenges Job to call and see whether anyone answers, and asks to which of the saints he will…
6. Job 6: Job 6: Job weighs his grief and faults his friends
   Job answers Eliphaz. He wishes his grief could be weighed, saying it would be heavier than the sand of the sea, and that the arrows of the Almighty…
7. Job 7: Job 7: Job turns from the friends to address God
   Job continues the reply begun in chapter 6, now speaking about man's lot and then to God. He says man's days on earth are like a hireling's, and that…
8. Job 8: Job 8: Bildad asks whether God perverts justice
   Bildad the Shuhite answers Job. He asks how long Job will speak such things and how long his words will be like a strong wind. He asks whether God…
9. Job 9: Job 9: how should man be just with God?
   Job answers Bildad. He grants that what Bildad says is true, then asks how a man can be just with God, since if God contends with him he cannot…
10. Job 10: Job 10: Job asks God why he contends with the work of his hands
    Job continues his answer. Weary of life, he resolves to speak in the bitterness of his soul and to say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you…
11. Job 11: Job 11: Zophar says God exacts less than Job deserves
    Zophar the Naamathite answers Job. He asks whether a multitude of words should go unanswered and whether a man full of talk should be justified, and…
12. Job 12: Job 12: Job says wisdom is not the friends' alone
    Job answers Zophar. He says with irony that the friends are the people and wisdom will die with them, then insists he has understanding as well as…
13. Job 13: Job 13: Job silences the friends and asks God for a hearing
    Job continues. He says his eye has seen and his ear understood all this; what the friends know he knows, and he is not inferior. He wants to speak to…
14. Job 14: Job 14: man's few days and the hope of a tree
    Job continues, speaking of man born of a woman as few of days and full of trouble, like a flower cut down and a shadow that does not continue. He…
15. Job 15: Job 15: Eliphaz's second speech and the wicked man's terror
    Eliphaz the Temanite answers Job a second time. He asks whether a wise man should utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind, and…
16. Job 16: Job 16: miserable comforters and a witness in heaven
    Job answers Eliphaz. He says he has heard many such things and calls the friends miserable comforters, asking whether vain words will end and what…
17. Job 17: Job 17: the grave is my house
    Job continues the reply begun in chapter 16. He says his breath is corrupt, his days extinct, and the graves ready for him; mockers are with him and…
18. Job 18: Job 18: Bildad on the light of the wicked put out
    Bildad the Shuhite answers a second time. He asks how long before an end is made of words, and says to mark and afterwards the friends will speak; he…
19. Job 19: Job 19: I know that my redeemer liveth
    Job answers Bildad. He asks how long they will vex his soul and break him in pieces with words, says they have reproached him ten times, and that if…
20. Job 20: Job 20: Zophar on the short triumph of the wicked
    Zophar the Naamathite answers a second time. He says his thoughts cause him to answer and he makes haste, because he has heard the check of his…
21. Job 21: Job 21: why do the wicked live and grow old?
    Job answers Zophar. He asks the friends to hear him and let that be their consolations, to suffer him to speak and afterwards mock on. His complaint…
22. Job 22: Job 22: Eliphaz names specific wrongs and calls Job to return
    Eliphaz the Temanite answers Job. He opens by asking whether a man can be profitable to God and whether it is any pleasure to the Almighty that Job…
23. Job 23: Job 23: Job longs to find God's seat and plead his cause
    Job answers. His complaint, he says, is still bitter, and his stroke heavier than his groaning. He wishes he knew where to find God so that he could…
24. Job 24: Job 24: Job describes oppressors and the poor, and asks why God's days go unseen
    Job's speech continues without a new heading. He asks why, since times are not hidden from the Almighty, those who know him do not see his days. He…
25. Job 25: Job 25: Bildad's brief reply on God's dominion and man as a worm
    Bildad the Shuhite answers in six verses. Dominion and fear, he says, are with God, who makes peace in his high places. He asks whether there is any…
26. Job 26: Job 26: Job mocks Bildad's help and describes God's power over sea and sky
    Job answers Bildad. He asks how Bildad has helped him that is without power, saved the arm that has no strength, counselled him that has no wisdom…
27. Job 27: Job 27: Job swears to keep his integrity and describes the wicked man's portion
    Job continues his parable. He swears by God, who he says has taken away his judgment and vexed his soul, that while breath is in him his lips will…
28. Job 28: Job 28: where wisdom is found, and the mines where it is not
    The chapter has no speaker heading. It begins with mining: there is a vein for silver and a place where gold is refined; iron is taken from the earth…
29. Job 29: Job 29: Job remembers the months when God preserved him
    Job continues his parable with a wish to be as he was in months past, in the days when God preserved him, when God's candle shone on his head and by…
30. Job 30: Job 30: Job's present derision, disease and unanswered cry
    Job's speech continues from the previous chapter. But now, he says, those younger than he hold him in derision, men whose fathers he would not have…
31. Job 31: Job 31: Job's oath of innocence and the end of his words
    Job continues, listing wrongs he has not done and calling penalties on himself if he has. He made a covenant with his eyes not to think upon a maid…
32. Job 32: Job 32: Elihu's anger and his claim to speak
    The narrator reports that the three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then the wrath of Elihu, son of Barachel the…
33. Job 33: Job 33: Elihu answers Job's claim of innocence with God's ways of speaking
    Elihu now addresses Job by name and asks him to hear all his words, which come from an upright heart; the Spirit of God made him, and he invites Job…
34. Job 34: Job 34: Elihu defends God's justice and says Job speaks without knowledge
    Elihu answers again, calling on the wise to hear him, since the ear tries words as the mouth tastes meat, and to choose judgment together. He reports…
35. Job 35: Job 35: Elihu on what human sin or righteousness does to God
    Elihu speaks again. He asks whether Job thinks it right to have said that his righteousness is more than God's, and to have asked what advantage or…
36. Job 36: Job 36: Elihu speaks on God's behalf about discipline and greatness
    Elihu proceeds, asking Job to bear with him, since he has more to say on God's behalf; his words will not be false, and one perfect in knowledge is…
37. Job 37: Job 37: Elihu on thunder, snow and the majesty no one can find out
    Elihu's speech continues. At this his heart trembles and moves from its place. He tells his hearers to listen to the noise of God's voice, which he…
38. Job 38: Job 38: the Lord answers from the whirlwind with questions about creation
    The Lord answers Job out of the whirlwind. Who is this, he asks, that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? He tells Job to gird up his loins…
39. Job 39: Job 39: the Lord's questions about the wild goats, wild ass, ostrich, horse and eagle
    The Lord's questions continue. Does Job know when the wild goats of the rock bring forth or when the hinds calve; can he number their months? They…
40. Job 40: Job 40: Job lays his hand on his mouth, and the Lord shows him behemoth
    The Lord asks whether he who contends with the Almighty will instruct him; let the one who reproves God answer. Job answers the Lord: he is vile, and…
41. Job 41: Job 41: leviathan, whom no hook can draw out and no sword can hold
    The Lord's speech continues with leviathan. Can Job draw him out with a hook, put a hook in his nose or bore his jaw with a thorn? Will he make…
42. Job 42: Job 42: Job repents, the friends are rebuked, and Job's latter end is blessed
    Job answers the Lord. He knows the Lord can do everything and that no thought can be withheld from him. Who hides counsel without knowledge? He has…

Main people in Job

• Job
• Adam

More people in Job

• Elihu
• Eliphaz
• Teman
• Bildad
• Zophar
• Barachel
• Jemimah
• Keren-happuch
• Keziah
• Ram
• Sheba