Job
Job in full in the Berean Standard Bible (42 chapters): read it chapter by chapter and compare translations.
Chapters of Job
- 1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and…
- 2On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to…
- 3After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- 4Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- 5“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- 6Then Job replied:
- 7“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- 8Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- 9Then Job answered:
- 10“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 11Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- 12Then Job answered:
- 13“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
- 14“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- 15Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- 16Then Job answered:
- 17“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- 18Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- 19Then Job answered:
- 20Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- 21Then Job answered:
- 22Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- 23Then Job answered:
- 24“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- 25Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- 26Then Job answered:
- 27Job continued his discourse:
- 28“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
- 29And Job continued his discourse:
- 30“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- 31“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- 32So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- 33“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
- 34Then Elihu continued:
- 35And Elihu went on to say:
- 36And Elihu continued:
- 37“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- 38Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
- 39“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
- 40And the LORD said to Job:
- 41“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- 42God restores JobThen Job replied to the LORD: