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    Job · 22 verses

    Job 1

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    The disasters do not wait for Job to finish hearing one before the next messenger arrives, and every survivor brings the same astonishing credential: “I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    A careful man with a very large householdvv. 1–5

    Job lives in Uz, blameless and upright, with seven sons, three daughters, and possessions enough to make a small kingdom look underdressed. His children feast by turns and invite their sisters, while Job, after every feast, rises early to offer burnt offerings for them. He does not know that they have sinned; he merely thinks, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” The text calls this his regular practice.

    The visitor in the heavenly assemblyvv. 6–12

    The sons of God present themselves before the LORD, and Satan is among them, which is already a wonderfully unceremonious entrance. Asked where he has been, Satan says he has been roaming through the earth and walking back and forth in it. The LORD points to Job; Satan replies that Job’s devotion may simply be good economics, since his household and possessions are hedged about and flourishing. Permission is given to strike everything Job has, but not Job himself. Satan goes out from the LORD’s presence.

    Four messengers, one survivor eachvv. 13–22

    Job’s sons and daughters are eating and drinking wine when the reports begin. The Sabeans take the oxen and donkeys; fire from heaven consumes the sheep; the Chaldeans raid the camels; then a mighty wind collapses the house where the young people are feasting. Each calamity is still being reported when the next messenger arrives, and each messenger alone survives to tell it. Job tears his robe, shaves his head, falls to the ground, and worships. His words are spare enough to carry all the wreckage: “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” The chapter closes by saying that Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

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    1. Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

    2. Job 1:2He had seven sons and three daughters,

    3. Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

    4. Job 1:4Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

    5. Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

    6. Job 1:6One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

    7. Job 1:7“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

    8. Job 1:8Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

    9. Job 1:9Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

    10. Job 1:10Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

    11. Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

    12. Job 1:12“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

    13. Job 1:13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

    14. Job 1:14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

    15. Job 1:15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    16. Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    17. Job 1:17While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    18. Job 1:18While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

    19. Job 1:19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    20. Job 1:20Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

    21. Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

    22. Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

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    • 1James 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
    • 1Ezekiel 14:14then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
    • 1Ezekiel 14:20then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
    • 21Ecclesiastes 5:15As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
    • 10Psalms 34:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
    • 211 Timothy 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
    • 10Zechariah 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
    • 211 Thessalonians 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
    • 6Job 2:1On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
    • 101 Peter 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
    • 21James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
    • 1Job 2:3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
    • 6Job 38:7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
    • 21Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
    • 1Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
    • 6Zechariah 3:1Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

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