Job 1

1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.Cross-references: Gen 6:9 · Gen 10:23 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 22:12 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 36:28 · +19 more

2There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.Cross-references: Esth 5:11 · Job 13:13 · Job 42:13 · Ps 107:38 · Ps 127:3 · Ps 128:3

3His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.Cross-references: Gen 12:5 · Gen 12:16 · Gen 13:6 · Gen 25:6 · Gen 29:1 · Gen 34:23 · +15 more

4His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.Cross-references: Ps 133:1 · Heb 13:1

5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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 renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:20 · Gen 22:3 · Gen 35:2 · Ex 18:12 · Ex 19:10 · +27 more

6Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 6:4 · 1Ki 22:19 · 1Chr 21:1 · Job 2:1 · Job 38:7 · +7 more

7Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”Cross-references: 2Ki 5:25 · Job 2:2 · Zech 1:10 · Zech 6:7 · Matt 12:43 · 1Pet 5:8 · +3 more

8Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”Cross-references: Num 12:3 · Num 12:7 · Josh 1:7 · 1Ki 4:30 · 2Ki 23:25 · Neh 5:15 · +21 more

9Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?Cross-references: Job 1:21 · Job 2:10 · Job 21:14 · Mal 1:10 · Matt 16:26 · 1Tim 4:8 · +1 more

10Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 26:12 · Gen 30:30 · Gen 30:43 · Gen 39:5 · Gen 49:25 · +22 more

11But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”Cross-references: Gen 26:11 · Job 1:5 · Job 1:12 · Job 1:21 · Job 2:5 · Job 2:9 · +10 more

12Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 16:6 · 1Ki 22:23 · Job 2:4 · Ps 76:10 · Isa 27:8 · Jer 38:5 · +6 more

13It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,Cross-references: Job 1:4 · Prov 27:1 · Eccl 9:12 · Luke 12:19 · Luke 17:27 · Luke 21:34

14that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,Cross-references: 1Sam 4:17 · 2Sam 15:13 · Jer 51:31

15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”Cross-references: Gen 10:7 · Gen 10:28 · Gen 25:3 · 1Sam 22:20 · Job 1:16 · Job 1:19 · +5 more

16While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Ex 9:28 · Lev 9:24 · Lev 10:2 · Num 11:1 · 1Sam 14:15 · +6 more

17While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”Cross-references: Gen 11:28 · Gen 11:31 · 2Sam 1:3 · Job 1:15 · Isa 23:13 · Hab 1:6

18While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,Cross-references: 2Sam 13:28 · Job 1:4 · Job 1:13 · Job 6:2 · Job 8:4 · Job 16:14 · +9 more

19and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”Cross-references: Gen 37:32 · Gen 42:36 · Judg 16:30 · 2Sam 18:33 · 1Ki 20:30 · Jer 4:11 · +4 more

20Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 37:34 · Deut 9:18 · 2Sam 12:16 · 2Chr 7:3 · Ezra 9:3 · +2 more

21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 30:2 · Gen 45:5 · 1Sam 2:7 · 1Sam 3:18 · 2Sam 16:12 · +22 more

22In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.Cross-references: Job 2:10 · Job 34:10 · Job 34:18 · Job 40:4 · Rom 9:20 · James 1:4 · +2 more