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Job

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

A blameless man loses everything and does not understand why. His friends say he suffers for his sin; Job denies it and cries out to God. At the end YHWH answers him from the whirlwind, and Job, without all the answers, says, “Now my eye has seen you.”

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  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40
  41. 41
  42. 42

How it is laid out

  1. Job loses everythingchapters 1–2
  2. Job and his friendschapters 3–31
  3. Elihuchapters 32–37
  4. God answerschapters 38–42

Key verses

  • Job 1:21 — YHWH gave, and YHWH took
  • Job 19:25 — I know that my redeemer lives
  • Job 42:5 — I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you
  • Job 38:4 — Where were you when I founded the earth?

Who wrote it

The book does not say who wrote it. The Babylonian Talmud (Baba Batra 14b–15a) attributes it to Moses. The authorship is debated.

When it was written

Debated: the book gives no dates and names no kings.

For whom, and in what situation

It names no audience. It speaks to anyone who suffers without understanding why. Job lives in the land of Uz (1:1), and the book does not mention Israel or Moses.

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