Job, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That
man was blameless and upright, and one who feared [1>]God[<1], and
turned away from evil. {1:2} There were born to him seven sons and
three daughters. {1:3} His 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. {1:4} His 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. {1:5} It was so,
when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent
and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered
burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It
may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts."
Job did so continually.
{1:6} Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present
themselves before [2>]the LORD,[<2] that Satan also came among them.
{1:7} The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth
in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
{1:8} The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job?
For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright
man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
{1:9} Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Job fear God for
nothing? {1:10} Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his
house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the
work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. {1:11}
But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will
renounce you to your face."
{1:12} The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your
power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand."
So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. {1:13} It fell on
a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in
their eldest brother's house, {1:14} that there came a messenger to
Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside
them, {1:15} and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they
have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have
escaped to tell you."
{1:16} While he was still speaking, there also came another, and
said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the
sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to
tell you."
{1:17} While he was still speaking, there came also another, and
said, "The Kasdim made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and
have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of
the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
{1:18} While he was still speaking, there came also another, and
said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in
their eldest brother's house, {1:19} and behold, there came a great
wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house,
and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped
to tell you."
{1:20} Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and
fell down on the ground, and worshiped. {1:21} He said, "Naked I came
out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD
gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
{1:22} In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
{2:1} Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to
present themselves before the LORD, that Satan came also among them to
present himself before the LORD. {2:2} The LORD said to Satan, "Where
have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, and said, "From going back and forth in the
earth, and from walking up and down in it."
{2:3} The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job?
For there is none like him in 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."
{2:4} Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all
that a man has he will give for his life. {2:5} But put forth your
hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you
to your face."
{2:6} The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only
spare his life."
{2:7} So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck
Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. {2:8} He
took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among
the ashes. {2:9} Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain
your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
{2:10} 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. {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} So they sat down with him
on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to
him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
{3:1} After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his
birth. {3:2} Job answered:
{3:3} "Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
{3:4} Let that day be darkness.
Don't let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it.
{3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
{3:6} 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.
{3:7} Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein.
{3:8} Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
{3:9} 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,
{3:10} because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb,
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
{3:11} "Why didn't I die from the womb?
Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
{3:12} Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
{3:13} For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
{3:14} with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built up waste places for themselves;
{3:15} or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver:
{3:16} or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
as infants who never saw light.
{3:17} There the wicked cease from troubling.
There the weary are at rest.
{3:18} There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
{3:19} The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.
{3:20} "Why is light given to him who is in misery,
life to the bitter in soul,
{3:21} Who long for death, but it doesn't come;
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
{3:22} who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
{3:23} Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
{3:24} For my sighing comes before I eat.
My groanings are poured out like water.
{3:25} For the thing which I fear comes on me,
That which I am afraid of comes to me.
{3:26} I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
but trouble comes."
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[2] {1:6} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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