Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+005   CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 17 “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. 18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. 19 He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you. […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+004   CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have upheld him who […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+003   CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+002   CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+001   Job The wisdom of Proverbs describes how godly character generally leads to success. Ecclesiastes tempers this, warning that rewards are not guaranteed, since a kind of “crookedness” has come into our world. The book of Job goes further, exploring how righteous people sometimes suffer. The book of Job uses […]