57 Bible Verses About Job

But Job answered and said,

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Then Job answered the Lord, and said,

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

And Job spake, and said,

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then Job answered and said,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

But Job answered and said,

And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

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 eschewed evil.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Then Job answered and said,

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

And Job answered and said,

So Job died, being old and full of days.

Then Job answered and said,

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

But Job answered and said,

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.