Job
42 chapters, 1070 verses. The 18th of 66 books, in Poetry and Wisdom.
How it begins
1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
2There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
3His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
4His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Chapters
- 1Job's faithfulness through loss
- 2Job's suffering worsens
- 3Job curses his day
- 4Eliphaz's first speech
- 5Eliphaz offers hope through correction
- 6Job rebukes his comforters
- 7Job's lament for his suffering
- 8Bildad's first speech
- 9Job cannot contend with God
- 10Job appeals to his maker
- 11Zophar's first speech
- 12Job claims equal wisdom
- 13Job will plead his cause
- 14Mortality and resurrection hope
- 15Eliphaz's second speech
- 16Job's suffering and heavenly witness
- 17Job's hope fades
- 18Bildad's second speech
- 19Job's redeemer lives
- 20Zophar's second speech
- 21Why do the wicked prosper
- 22Eliphaz's third speech
- 23Job seeks God's presence
- 24Darkness covers the wicked
- 25Bildad's third speech
- 26Job's answer about God's power
- 27Job's oath of integrity
- 28Where wisdom is found
- 29Job remembers his former glory
- 30Job mocked in his affliction
- 31Job's oath of righteousness
- 32Elihu prepares to speak
- 33God speaks through dreams and pain
- 34God cannot commit iniquity
- 35Man's deeds do not reach God
- 36God's power magnified
- 37God's wonders in the storm
- 38The Lord speaks from the whirlwind
- 39God's questions about creatures
- 40Behemoth, the mighty creature
- 41The mighty leviathan
- 42Job repents and is restored
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.