Job

How each chapter begins

1. Job 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…

2. Job 2

   On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present…

3. Job 3

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

4. Job 4

   Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

5. Job 5

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

6. Job 6

   Then Job replied:

7. Job 7

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

8. Job 8

   Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

9. Job 9

   Then Job answered:

10. Job 10

    “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

11. Job 11

    Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

12. Job 12

    Then Job answered:

13. Job 13

    “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

14. Job 14

    “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

15. Job 15

    Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

16. Job 16

    Then Job answered:

17. Job 17

    “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

18. Job 18

    Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

19. Job 19

    Then Job answered:

20. Job 20

    Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

21. Job 21

    Then Job answered:

22. Job 22

    Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

23. Job 23

    Then Job answered:

24. Job 24

    “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

25. Job 25

    Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

26. Job 26

    Then Job answered:

27. Job 27

    Job continued his discourse:

28. Job 28

    “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

29. Job 29

    And Job continued his discourse:

30. Job 30

    “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

31. Job 31

    “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

32. Job 32

    So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

33. Job 33

    “But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

34. Job 34

    Then Elihu continued:

35. Job 35

    And Elihu went on to say:

36. Job 36

    And Elihu continued:

37. Job 37

    “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

38. Job 38

    Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

39. Job 39

    “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

40. Job 40

    And the LORD said to Job:

41. Job 41

    “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

42. Job 42

    Then Job replied to the LORD:

Job in other translations

• KJV King James Version
• WEB World English Bible
• ASV American Standard Version
• YLT Young's Literal Translation
• DBY Darby Translation
• WBS Webster Bible