Job Wife

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

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.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

There 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. — read the full passage →

There 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.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. — read the full passage →

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, — read the full passage →

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, — read the full passage →

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one 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.”

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

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.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, — read the full passage →

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.” — read the full passage →

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Job again took up his parable, and said, — read the full passage →

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

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.

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

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.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. — read the full passage →

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.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

There 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. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.