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Job · read by Ed Miller
83 verses, in order. Only the verses Ed read aloud are shown.
Job 1
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There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular practice.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.Read from ESV · The Theme of Job
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"Where have you come from?" said the LORD to Satan. "From roaming through the earth," he replied, "and walking back and forth in it."Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil."Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nothing?Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face."Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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"Very well," said the LORD to Satan. "Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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saying: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 2
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Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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Then Job's wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!"Read from ESV · The Theme of Job
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"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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Now when Job's three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 3
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Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?Read from ESV · The Theme of Job
Job 4
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Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:Read from ESV · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 6
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It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?Read from ESV · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #3) Manifestation of Christ
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But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 7
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My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 10
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Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 12
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"Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.Read from NASB1995 · Obedience of Faith - Illustrated by the Disciples on the Stormy Sea
Job 13
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Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 16
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God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 17
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Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 19
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"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 20
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I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
Job 22
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Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.Read from NASB1995 · Job #4: God Almighty, the God Who Is Enough
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Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.Read from NASB1995 · Job #4: God Almighty, the God Who Is Enough
Job 23
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Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 29
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"How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
Job 32
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Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 33
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My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.Read from NASB1995 · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.Read from NKJV · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom."Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 34
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'Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.'Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 35
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But no one asks, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'Read from NKJV · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge."Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 36
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He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 37
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God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.Read from NASB1995 · Christ Our Sanctification #4
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They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.Read from NASB1995 · Christ Our Sanctification #4
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Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
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Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend
Job 38
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"Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?Read from NKJV · Outline of Job: Wrong Questions, Wrong Assumptions
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Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.Read from NKJV · Job #4: God Almighty, the God Who Is Enough
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while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?Read from ESV · (Luke) 09 - Results of His Coming
Job 40
Job 42
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"I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.Read from ESV · Job #4: God Almighty, the God Who Is Enough
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Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes."Read from NASB1995 · The Theme of Job
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After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.Read from NASB1995 · Job #3: The 4th Friend