Old Testament · 42 chapters

Job

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Session 1 · Job 1–5

In the land of Uz the LORD calls Job blameless and upright, then permits the satan to strip his herds, his servants, and his ten children in a single day.
A second council limits the satan to Job's flesh, and Job, scraping his sores on the ash heap, refuses his wife's counsel to curse God and die.
Job curses the day of his birth and asks why light is given to one whose way is hidden and whom God has hedged in.
Eliphaz the Temanite answers from a night vision that no mortal is righteous before God, and that the innocent do not perish.
Eliphaz tells Job to seek the God who wounds and binds up, promising rescue from trouble and a grave in ripe old age.

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Session 2 · Job 6–10

Job says his grief outweighs the sand of the seas, and that his friends have proved as treacherous as a brook that vanishes in the heat.
He compares his days to a hired man's toil and asks why the LORD inspects a creature who will soon lie down in the dust.
Bildad the Shuhite insists God does not pervert justice, treats the children's death as the fruit of their sin, and appeals to the wisdom of the fathers.
Job answers that no man can win a suit against the God who shakes the earth and seals the stars, and that no arbiter stands between them.
Job loathes his life and asks the God who knit him in the womb why those same hands now seem to hunt him like a lion.

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Session 3 · Job 11–15

Zophar the Naamathite calls Job's words empty wind and says God exacts less than Job's guilt deserves.
Job mocks the friends' wisdom, declares that wisdom and might belong to God, and says he is not inferior to those who counsel him.
Job calls their maxims proverbs of ashes, insists he will argue his case before the Almighty, and asks them to stop speaking deceit.
Job says a mortal is few of days, like a flower, and then asks whether a man who dies shall live again.
Eliphaz's second speech charges Job with doing away with the fear of God and paints the wicked man writhing in pain all his days.

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Session 4 · Job 16–20

Job calls his friends miserable comforters and says that, though God has worn him out, his witness is in heaven.
His spirit is broken and friends have made him a byword, so that the grave seems to be the only home he has left.
Bildad describes the wicked man's lamp going out, his steps trapped, and his march toward the king of terrors.
Job protests that God has stripped his glory, then declares that his Redeemer lives and that he shall see God.
Zophar answers that the triumph of the wicked is short and that sweetness in the mouth turns to the poison of asps.

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Session 5 · Job 21–25

Job asks why the wicked often live long, grow mighty, and die in ease, and he calls the friends' comfort empty.
Eliphaz invents charges against Job, from stripped garments to rejected widows, and tells him to return to the Almighty and be at peace.
Job longs to find God's dwelling and lay out his case, sure that when he has been tried he will come forth as gold.
He asks why the Almighty does not keep stated days of judgment while the poor are pushed off the road and the wicked are buried in peace.
Bildad's last speech is brief: dominion and fear belong to God, and a man born of woman cannot be pure before Him.

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Session 6 · Job 26–30

Job tells Bildad his help was feeble, then describes God's rule over Sheol, the sea, and the fleeing serpent, calling these only the outskirts of His ways.
He swears he will not put away his integrity while he lives, and he sets out the portion God finally assigns to the oppressor.
A poem searches the mine and the deep for wisdom, and answers that the fear of the Lord is wisdom and turning from evil is understanding.
Job remembers when the Almighty was still with him, when he sat as a prince, eyes to the blind and a father to the poor.
Now younger men mock him, terrors have come, and he says God has cast him into the mire and become cruel to him.

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Session 7 · Job 31–35

Job seals an oath against lust, fraud, injustice to servants, greed, and secret worship of wealth, and he demands a hearing from the Almighty.
Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite burns with anger because Job justified himself and the three friends found no answer.
Elihu says God is greater than man and speaks in dreams and through pain, so that a messenger might say he has found a ransom.
He contends that the Almighty will not pervert justice, that Job has spoken without knowledge, and that God is no one's debtor.
He argues that human righteousness does not put God in debt, and that empty cries go unheard when pride blocks the plea.

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Session 8 · Job 36–40

Elihu exalts God's power as a teacher, warns Job not to cherish iniquity, and says God does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.
He points to thunder, ice, and the whirling storm and asks whether Job can spread out the skies as the voice of God draws near.
The LORD answers Job out of the whirlwind and asks where he was when the earth's foundation was laid and the sea was shut within doors.
The questions continue through mountain goats, the wild donkey, the ostrich, the war horse, and the hawk that mounts up by God's wisdom.
Job admits he is of small account, and the LORD asks whether Job will condemn Him in order to be in the right, then points to Behemoth.

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Session 9 · Job 41–42

The LORD describes Leviathan, who will not beg for mercy or be led with a hook, and asks who then can stand before the Maker of such a creature.
Job repents in dust and ashes, the LORD rebukes the three friends, accepts Job's prayer for them, and restores his fortunes in a long life.

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