Job 1-5
Job 1
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. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons 👦 and three daughters 👧. 3 His 🧔 substance also was seven thousand sheep 🐑, and three thousand camels 🐪, and five hundred yoke of oxen 🫏, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man 🧔 was the greatest of all the men of the east. 4 And his sons 👦 went and feasted in their houses 🏠, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters 👧 to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job 🧔 sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job 🧔 said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God 😶🌫️ in their hearts ♥️. Thus did Job 🧔 continually.
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God 👼 came to present themselves before the LORD 😶🌫️, and Satan 👿 came also among them 👼. 7 And the LORD 😶🌫️ said unto Satan 👿, Whence comest thou 👿? Then Satan 👿 answered the LORD 😶🌫️, and said, From going to and fro in the earth 🌎, and from walking up and down in it. 8 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? 9 Then Satan 👿 answered the LORD 😶🌫️, and said, Doth Job 🧔 fear God 😶🌫️ for nought? 10 Hast not thou 😶🌫️ made an hedge about him 🧔, and about his 🧔 house 🏠, and about all that he 🧔 hath on every side? thou 😶🌫️ hast blessed the work of his 🧔 hands, and his 🧔 substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine 😶🌫️ hand now, and touch all that he 🧔 hath, and he 🧔 will curse thee to thy 😶🌫️ face. 12 And the LORD 😶🌫️ said unto Satan 👿, Behold, all that he 🧔 hath is in thy 👿 power; only upon himself 🧔 put not forth thine 👿 hand. So Satan 👿 went forth from the presence of the LORD 😶🌫️.
13 And there was a day when his sons 👦 and his daughters 👧 were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house 🏠: 14 And there came a messenger unto Job 🧔, and said, The oxen 🫏 were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain ☠️ the servants with the edge of the sword ⚔️; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire 🔥 of God 😶🌫️ is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep 🐑, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels 🐪, and have carried them away, yea, and slain ☠️ the servants with the edge of the sword ⚔️; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons 👦 and thy daughters 👧 were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house 🏠: 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house 🏠, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead ⚔️; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job 🧔 arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his 🧔 head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I 🧔 out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I 🧔 return thither: the LORD 😶🌫️ gave, and the LORD 😶🌫️ hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD 😶🌫️.
22 In all this Job 🧔 sinned not, nor charged God foolishly 😶🌫️.
Job 2
Again there was a day when the sons of God 👼 came to present themselves before the LORD 😶🌫️, and Satan 👿 came also among them to present himself 👿 before the LORD 😶🌫️. 2 And the LORD 😶🌫️ said unto Satan 👿, From whence comest thou 👿? And Satan 👿 answered the LORD 😶🌫️, and said, From going to and fro in the earth🌎, and from walking up and down in it. 3 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. 4 And Satan 👿 answered the LORD 😶🌫️, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man 🙂 hath will he 🙂 give for his 🙂 life. 5 But put forth thine 😶🌫️ hand now, and touch his 🙂 bone and his 🙂 flesh, and he 🙂 will curse thee 😶🌫️ to thy 😶🌫️ face. 6 And the LORD said unto Satan 👿, Behold, he 🧔 is in thine hand; but save his 🧔 life.
7 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. 8 And he 🧔 took him 🧔 a potsherd to scrape himself 🧔 withal; and he 🧔 sat down among the ashes.
9 Then said his wife 🧕 unto him 🧔, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God 😶🌫️, and die ☠️. 10 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.
11 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 🧔. 12 And when they 🧑🤝🧑 lifted up their 🧑🤝🧑 eyes 👀 afar off, and knew him 🧔 not, they lifted up their 🧑🤝🧑 voice, and wept; and they 🧑🤝🧑 rent every one his 🧔 mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their 🧑🤝🧑 heads toward heaven. 13 So they 🧑🤝🧑 sat down with him 🧔 upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him 🧔: for they 🧑🤝🧑 saw that his 🧔 grief was very great.
Job 3
After this opened Job 🧔 his 🧔 mouth, and cursed his 🧔 day. 2 And Job 🧔 spake, and 🧔 said,
3 Let the day 🌞 perish wherein I 🧔 was born, and the night 🌃 in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day 🌞 be darkness; let not God 😶🌫️ regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death ☠️ stain it; let a cloud ☁️ dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day 🌞 terrify it.
6 As for that night 🌃, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night 🌃 be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day 🌞, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight ⭐ thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day 🌞:
10 Because it shut not up the doors 🚪 of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine 🧔 eyes 👀.
11 Why died ☠️ I 🧔 not from the womb? why did I 🧔 not give up the ghost 👻 when I 🧔 came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me 🧔? or why the breasts that I 🧔 should suck?
13 For now should I 🧔 have lain still and been quiet, I 🧔 should have slept: then had I 🧔 been at rest,
14 With kings 👑 and counsellors ⚕️ of the earth 🌎, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold 🥇, who filled their houses with silver 🥈:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I 🧔 had not been; as infants 👶 which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest 🛏️.
18 There the prisoners rest 🛏️ together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Which long for death ☠️, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice 😀 exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave 🪦?
23 Why is light given to a man 🙂 whose way is hid, and whom God 😶🌫️ hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I 🧔 eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters 🌊.
25 For the thing which I 🧔 greatly feared 😨 is come upon me 🧔, and that which I 🧔 was afraid 😨 of is come unto me 🧔.
26 I 🧔 was not in safety, neither had I 🧔 rest 🛏️, neither was I 🧔 quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 4
Then Eliphaz the Temanite 👨🦱 answered and said,
2 If we 🧑🤝🧑 assay to commune with thee 🧔, wilt thou 🧔 be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou 🧔 hast instructed many, and thou 🧔 hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy 🧔 words have upholden him 🧔 that was falling, and thou 🧔 hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon thee 🧔, and thou 🧔 faintest; it toucheth thee 🧔, and thou 🧔 art troubled.
6 Is not this thy 🧔 fear 😨, thy 🧔 confidence, thy 🧔 hope, and the uprightness of thy 🧔 ways?
7 Remember, I 👨🦱 pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I 👨🦱 have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God 😶🌫️ they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion 🦁, and the voice of the fierce lion 🦁, and the teeth of the young lions 🦁, are broken.
11 The old lion 🦁 perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's 🦁 whelps are scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me 👨🦱, and mine 👨🦱 ear 👂received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night 🌃, when deep sleep 😴 falleth on men,
14 Fear 😨 came upon me 👨🦱, and trembling, which made all my bones 🦴 to shake.
15 Then a spirit (👿?) passed before my 👨🦱 face; the hair of my 👨🦱 flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I 👨🦱 could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine 👨🦱 eyes 👀, there was silence, and I 👨🦱 heard a voice (👿?), saying,
17 Shall mortal man 🙂 be more just than God 😶🌫️? shall a man 🙂 be more pure than his 🙂 maker 😶🌫️?
18 Behold, he 😶🌫️ put no trust in his 😶🌫️ servants; and his 😶🌫️ angels 😇 he 😶🌫️ charged with folly:
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses 🏠 of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth 🦋?
20 They are destroyed from morning 🌇 to evening 🌆: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die ☠️, even without wisdom.
Job 5
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee 🧔; and to which of the saints wilt thou 🧔 turn?
2 For wrath killeth ☠️ the foolish man 🙃, and envy slayeth ☠️ the silly one 😜.
3 I 👨🦱 have seen the foolish 🙃 taking root: but suddenly I 👨🦱 cursed his 🙃 habitation.
4 His children 🧒 are far from safety, and they 🧒 are crushed in the gate ☠️, neither is there any to deliver them 🧒.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man 🙂 is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I 👨🦱 would seek unto God 😶🌫️, and unto God 😶🌫️ would I 👨🦱 commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number #️⃣:
10 Who 😶🌫️ giveth rain 🌧️ upon the earth 🌎, and sendeth waters 🌊 upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He 😶🌫️ disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He 😶🌫️ taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday 🕛 as in the night 🌃.
15 But he 😶🌫️ saveth the poor from the sword ⚔️, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 Behold, happy 😀 is the man 🙂 whom God 😶🌫️ correcteth: therefore despise not thou 🧔 the chastening of the Almighty 😶🌫️:
18 For he 😶🌫️ maketh sore, and bindeth up: he 😶🌫️ woundeth, and his 😶🌫️ hands make whole.
19 He 😶🌫️ shall deliver thee 🧔 in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee 🧔.
20 In famine he 😶🌫️ shall redeem thee 🧔 from death ☠️: and in war from the power of the sword⚔️.
21 Thou 🧔 shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou 🧔 be afraid 😨 of destruction when it cometh.
22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh 😂: neither shalt thou be afraid 😨 of the beasts 🦌 of the earth 🌎.
23 For thou 🧔 shalt be in league with the stones 🪨 of the field: and the beasts 🦌 of the field shall be at peace with thee 🧔.
24 And thou 🧔 shalt know that thy 🧔 tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou 🧔 shalt visit thy 🧔 habitation 🏠, and shalt not sin.
25 Thou 🧔 shalt know also that thy 🧔 seed 🫘 shall be great, and thine 🧔 offspring as the grass of the earth 🌎.
26 Thou 🧔 shalt come to thy 🧔 grave 🪦 in a full age, like as a shock of corn 🌽 cometh in in his 🌽 season.
27 Lo this, we 🧑🤝🧑 have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou 🧔 it for thy 🧔 good.