Jobs

There is nothing better for a manthanthat he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

For no word from God shall be void of power.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judæa:

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and endued with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:— — read the full passage →

He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel’s sake, — read the full passage →

Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, saying, — read the full passage →

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

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them. — read the full passage →

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; — read the full passage →

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, — read the full passage →

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, — read the full passage →

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? — read the full passage →

Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

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

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. — read the full passage →

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, — read the full passage →

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

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

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn? — read the full passage →

But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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

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

So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. — read the full passage →

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →