Jobs

There is nothing better for a man than that 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, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

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.

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.

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

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

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

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,

who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

Whatever you 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 you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you 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 don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

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.”

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

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.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed 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 language of the Chaldeans.

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

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

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

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust 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 who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Don’t take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 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, says the Lord Yahweh.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on 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 is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. — read the full passage →

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

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

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

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

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

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

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

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

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

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

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

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? — read the full passage →

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite 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. — 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. — read the full passage →

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

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

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →