Old Testament
Job
Read Job online — suffering, faith, and God’s answer from the whirlwind
42 chapters — your reading progress will grow here.
Chapters
Chapter I
1 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…
Chapter II
1 Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present hims…
Chapter III
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2 Job answered: 3 “Let the day perish in which I was…
Chapter IV
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold…
Chapter V
1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 For resentment kills the fooli…
Chapter VI
1 Then Job answered, 2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be…
Chapter VII
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? 2 As a servant who earnestly des…
Chapter VIII
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty w…
Chapter IX
1 Then Job answered, 2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? 3 If he is pleased to contend with…
Chapter X
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I …
Chapter XI
1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, 2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be j…
Chapter XII
1 Then Job answered, 2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. 3 But I have understanding as we…
Chapter XIII
1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. 2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior…
Chapter XIV
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He al…
Chapter XV
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wi…
Chapter XVI
1 Then Job answered, 2 “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! 3 Shall vain words have an end?…
Chapter XVII
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me. 2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye …
Chapter XVIII
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Why a…
Chapter XIX
1 Then Job answered, 2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? 3 You have reproached me ten times. You a…
Chapter XX
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, 2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. 3 I…
Chapter XXI
1 Then Job answered, 2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. 3 Allow me, and I also will speak.…
Chapter XXII
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.…
Chapter XXIII
1 Then Job answered, 2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. 3 Oh that I kn…
Chapter XXIV
1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days? 2 There are people who remove th…
Chapter XXV
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, 2 “Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. 3 Can his armi…
Chapter XXVI
1 Then Job answered, 2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! 3…
Chapter XXVII
1 Job again took up his parable, and said, 2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my s…
Chapter XXVIII
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copp…
Chapter XXIX
1 Job again took up his parable, and said, 2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched ov…
Chapter XXX
1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep do…
Chapter XXXI
1 “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? 2 For what is the portion from God…
Chapter XXXII
1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son o…
Chapter XXXIII
1 “However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. 2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spo…
Chapter XXXIV
1 Moreover Elihu answered, 2 “Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. 3 For the ear tries w…
Chapter XXXV
1 Moreover Elihu answered, 2 “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ …
Chapter XXXVI
1 Elihu also continued, and said, 2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on Go…
Chapter XXXVII
1 “Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. 2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound tha…
Chapter XXXVIII
1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Brace …
Chapter XXXIX
1 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? 2 Can you count the m…
Chapter XL
1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job, 2 “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer…
Chapter XLI
1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope into his nose…
Chapter XLII
1 Then Job answered Yahweh: 2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. 3 You …
