Job

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. A man who lived in UzJob 1:1
• Righteousness ofJob 1:1Job 1:5Job 1:8Job 2:3Ezekiel 14:14Ezekiel 14:20
• Riches ofJob 1:3
• Trial of, by affliction of SatanJob 1:13–19Job 2:7–10
• Fortitude ofJob 1:20–22Job 2:10James 5:11
• Visited by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar as comfortersJob 2:11–13
• Complaints of, and replies by his three friends toJob 3Job 4Job 5Job 6Job 7Job 8Job 9Job 10Job 11Job 12Job 13Job 14Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 18Job 19Job 20Job 21Job 22
• Replied to by GodJob 38Job 39Job 40Job 41
• Submission of, to GodJob 40:3–5Job 42:1–6
• Later blessings and riches ofJob 42:10–16
• Death ofJob 42:16Job 42:17
• 2. JOB

The passages, in Bible order (57)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 1:1

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

   ›Commentary on Job 1:12 voices

   “I am forced, through each of the books of Divine Scripture, to respond to the slander of adversaries who accuse my translation of rebuking the Seventy translators, not as though among the Greeks Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion had also translated either word for word, or meaning for meaning, or by mixing both together, also a kind of translation of equal proportion, and also Origen had divided all the scrolls of the Old Instrument with obeli and asterisks which, either added by him or taken from Theodotion, he added to the ancient translation, proving what was added to have been lacking.

   “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job,.... Of the signification of his name, see the introduction to the book.

   Everything gathered on Job 1:1→

   Verse page →Original language →

2. Job 1:3

   and 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.

   ›Commentary on Job 1:32 voices

   “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household.

   “His substance also was seven thousand sheep,....

   Everything gathered on Job 1:3→

   Verse page →Original language →

3. Job 1:5

   And 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.

   ›Commentary on Job 1:52 voices

   “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. 'The days of feasting are gone,' when the ministrations of preaching are brought to an end; and when the feasts were ended, Job offered an holocaust for his sons, in that our Redeemer besought the Father in behalf of the Apostles, when they returned from preaching.

   “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about,....

   Everything gathered on Job 1:5→

   Verse page →Original language →

4. Job 1:8

   Then 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.”

   ›Commentary on Job 1:82 voices

   “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION That Job means by interpretation, 'Grieving,' we have already said a little above. And He is truly called 'Grieving' in figure, Who is declared by the testimony of the Prophet 'to bear our griefs.' Who has not His like on the earth; for every man is only man, but He is both God and Man. He has not His like on earth, because though every son by adoption attains to the receiving of the Divine nature, yet none ever receives so much, as to be, by nature, God.

   “And the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job,....

   Everything gathered on Job 1:8→

   Verse page →Original language →

5. Job 1:13–19

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

   ›Commentary on Job 1:13–192 voices

   “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION We ought to observe what times are suited for temptations; for the devil chose that as the time for tempting, when he found the sons of the blessed Job engaged in feasting; for the adversary does not only cast about what to do, but also when to do it. Then though he had gotten the power, yet he sought a fitting season to work his overthrow, to this end, that by God's disposal it might be recorded for our benefit, that the delight of full enjoyment is the forerunner of woe.

   “And there was a day,....

   Everything gathered on Job 1:13–19→

   Verse page →Original language →

6. Job 1:20–22

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

   ›Commentary on Job 1:20–222 voices

   “Be perfectly assured of this, that though the reasons for what is ordained by God are beyond us, yet always what is arranged for us by him who is wise and who loves us is to be accepted, be it ever so grievous to endure. He himself knows how he is appointing what is best for each and why the terms of life that he fixes for us are unequal.

   “Then Job arose,.... Either from table, being at dinner, as some think, in his own house; it being the time that his children were feasting in their eldest brother's house; or from the business in which he was employed, which he stopped on hearing this news; or from his seat, or chair of state in which he sat; or rather the phrase only signifies, that he at once, with strength of body, and rigour of mind, which were not lost, as often they are in such cases, went about the following things with great composure and sedateness.

   Everything gathered on Job 1:20–22→

   Verse page →Original language →

7. Job 2:3

   Then 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.”

   ›Commentary on Job 2:32 voices

   “And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. As if He said explicitly, 'Thou indeed hast wrought thy malice, but he has not lost his innocence; and thou art forced to serve to his advancement by the very means whence thou thoughtest to lessen his advancement.

   “And the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?.... The same with this is also before put unto Satan, and the same character given of Job, which is here continued and confirmed, with an addition to it; for Job was no loser, but a gainer in his character by his afflictions and trials: and still he holdeth fast his integrity.

   Everything gathered on Job 2:3→

   Verse page →Original language →

8. Job 2:7–10

   So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

   ›Commentary on Job 2:7–102 voices

   “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. And smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown. How 'Satan goes forth from the presence of the Lord,' is shewn by the remarks which have been already made above. Strokes are to be estimated in two ways, viz. to consider either of what kind, or how great.

   “So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord,....

   Everything gathered on Job 2:7–10→

   Verse page →Original language →

9. Job 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.

   ›Commentary on Job 2:102 voices

   “MORAL INTERPRETATION. Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? For it is meet that the holy mind restrain by spiritual correction whatever of a carnal nature within it utters rebellious muttering, that the flesh whether by speaking severe things may not draw it into impatience, nor yet by speaking smooth ones melt it to the looseness of lust.

   “But he said unto her, thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh,....

   Everything gathered on Job 2:10→

   Verse page →Original language →

10. Job 2:11–13

    Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

    ›Commentary on Job 2:11–132 voices

    “MORAL INTERPRETATION. For they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. Yet it very often happens, that whilst we are striving to stay ourselves in this fight of temptation by exalted virtues, certain vices cloak themselves to our eyes under the garb of virtues, and come to us as it were with a smooth face, but how adverse to us they are we perceive upon examination.

    “Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him,....

    Everything gathered on Job 2:11–13→

    Verse page →Original language →

11. Job 3:1

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

    ›Commentary on Job 3:11 voice

    “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born. That which is here said, He opened his mouth, must not be gone into negligently. For by the things which Holy Scripture premises but slightly, we are apprised that what comes after is to be expected with reverence.

    Everything gathered on Job 3:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

12. Job 4:1

    Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

    ›Commentary on Job 4:12 voices

    “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? It has been already declared above, what there is set forth in the interpretation of these names. Therefore, because we are in haste to reach the unexamined parts, we forbear to unfold again what has been already delivered. Accordingly this is to be heedfully observed, that they, that bear the semblance of heretics, begin to speak softly, saying, If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?

    “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said.

    Everything gathered on Job 4:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

13. Job 5:1

    “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

    ›Commentary on Job 5:12 voices

    “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee. For Almighty God often passes by the prayer of that man in his trouble, who slights His precepts in the season of rest. Hence it is written, He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Now for us 'to call,' is to beseech God with humble prayer; but for God to 'answer,' is to vouchsafe an accomplishment to our prayers; and so he says, Call now, if any will answer thee.

    “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee,....

    Everything gathered on Job 5:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

14. Job 6:1

    Then Job replied:

    ›Commentary on Job 6:12 voices

    “Eliphaz had clearly noted in earlier verses three things in the lament of Job: despair because he seemed to desire not to exist; impatience or immoderate sorrow because of the sighs and moans which he said he was enduring; and presumption because he asserted his …

    “But Job answered and said.

    Everything gathered on Job 6:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

15. Job 7:1

    “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

    ›Commentary on Job 7:12 voices

    “The life of man upon earth is a warfare. In this passage in the old Translation the life of man is not called 'a warfare' at all, but 'a trial,' yet if the meaning of either word be regarded, the sound that meets the ear outwardly is different, yet they make one and the same concordant meaning. For what is represented by the title of 'a trial,' saving our contest with evil spirits? and what by the designation of 'a warfare,' but an exercising against our enemies?

    “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?....

    Everything gathered on Job 7:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

16. Job 8:1

    Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

    ›Commentary on Job 8:12 voices

    “Then answered Bildad, the Shuhite, and said, How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the breath of the words of thy mouth be multiplied? To the unrighteous the words of the righteous are ever grievous, and such as they hear spoken for edification, they bear as a burthen put upon them. As Bildad, the Shuhite, plainly indicates in his own case, when he says, How long wilt thou speak these things? For he that says how long, shews that he cannot any longer bear words of edification.

    “Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said. This was the second of Job's friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and is mentioned next to Eliphaz there, and takes his turn in this controversy in the same side; which no doubt was agreed upon among themselves, as well as the part each should bear, and the general sentiment they should pursue, which was the same in them all.

    Everything gathered on Job 8:1→

    Verse page →Original language →