Jobs

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it <FI>is<Fi> from the hand of God.

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

who <FI>were<Fi> once not a people, and <FI>are<Fi> now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his reward.'

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

if to others I am not an apostle--yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

and labour, working with <FI>our<Fi> own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he <FI>is<Fi> to a destroyer.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips <FI>is<Fi> only to want.

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

Look unto Jehovah--be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

if ye ask anything in my name I will do <FI>it<Fi> .

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

lads in whom there is no blemish, and of good appearance, and skilful in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and teaching thought, and who have ability to stand in the palace of the king, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

And these <FI>are<Fi> words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people--whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not. — read the full passage →

And Moses speaketh unto the people, saying, `Be ye armed some of you for the host, and they are against Midian, to put the vengeance of Jehovah on Midian;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying, — read the full passage →

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →

Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? — read the full passage →

And Jesus answering said, `Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news', — read the full passage →

`Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles, — read the full passage →

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job--they by their righteousness deliver their own soul--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

In the year of the death of king Uzziah--I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple. — read the full passage →

But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, <FI>are<Fi> in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole <FI>is<Fi> before them. — read the full passage →

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes, — read the full passage →

And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down--his tongue? — read the full passage →

And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark! — read the full passage →

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: -- — read the full passage →

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin?

Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine;

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me. — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble! — read the full passage →

Lo, all--hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul. — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days? — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn? — read the full passage →

But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

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

And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown. — read the full passage →

A man there hath been in the land of Uz--Job his name--and that man hath been perfect and upright--both fearing God, and turning aside from evil. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house, — read the full passage →

After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and setteth his throne above all the heads who <FI>are<Fi> with him, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, when Samuel <FI>is<Fi> aged, that he maketh his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →