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Day 157 of 365

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Job 2-5

Job Chapter 2

¹Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. ²The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” ³The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.” ⁴Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.” ⁶The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.” ⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. ⁸He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. ⁹Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.” ¹⁰But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. ¹¹Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. ¹²When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. ¹³So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

1: Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

2: The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

3: The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

4: Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

5: But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

6: The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

7: So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

8: He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

9: Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

10: But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

11: Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

12: When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

13: So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job Chapter 3

¹After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. ²Job answered: ³“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ ⁴Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. ⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it. ⁶As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ⁹Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, ¹⁰because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. ¹¹“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? ¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? ¹³For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, ¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; ¹⁵or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; ¹⁶or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. ¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. ¹⁹The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. ²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, ²¹who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, ²²who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? ²⁴For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. ²⁵For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me. ²⁶I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

1: After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

2: Job answered:

3: “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

4: Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

5: Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

6: As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

7: Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

8: Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

9: Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

10: because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

11: “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

12: Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

13: For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

14: with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

15: or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

16: or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

17: There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

18: There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

19: The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

20: “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

21: who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

22: who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23: Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

24: For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

25: For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.

26: I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

Job Chapter 4

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, ²“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? ³Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm. ⁵But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled. ⁶Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope? ⁷“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? ⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same. ⁹By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. ¹²“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it. ¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, ¹⁴fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. ¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. ¹⁶It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, ¹⁷‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? ¹⁸Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. ¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! ²⁰Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. ²¹Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2: “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

3: Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

4: Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.

5: But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

6: Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

7: “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

8: According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

9: By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

10: The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

11: The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

12: “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

13: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

14: fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

15: Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

16: It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

17: ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

18: Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

19: How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

20: Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

21: Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Job Chapter 5

¹“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? ²For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. ³I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. ⁶For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; ⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, ⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number; ¹⁰who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; ¹¹so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. ¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. ¹⁷“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole. ¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. ²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. ²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²²You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth. ²³For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you. ²⁴You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing. ²⁵You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. ²⁷Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

1: “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2: For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

3: I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4: His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5: whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

6: For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

7: but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8: “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

9: who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

10: who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

11: so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

12: He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

13: He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

14: They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

15: But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

16: So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

17: “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

18: For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

19: He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

20: In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

21: You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

22: You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

23: For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

24: You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

25: You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.

26: You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

27: Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

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