Bible verses about "job" | Leeser

¹⁰ And the Lord brought back the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends; and the Lord increased all that Job had had twofold. ¹¹ And then came unto him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled with him, and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and they gave him, every one, a kessitah, and every one an earring of gold. ¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. ¹³ He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. ¹⁵ And there were not found such handsome women as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

²⁴ Therefore do men fear him; he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

¹ Then answered Job unto the Lord, and said, ² I acknowledge that thou art able to do every thing, and that no deep plan of thine can be restrained. ³ Who is he that dareth to conceal thy counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. ⁴ Oh do but hear me, and I will indeed speak: I will ask of thee, and do thou inform me. ⁵ I had only heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye hath seen thee. ⁶ Therefore I reject what I have said, and repent; because I am dust and ashes.

¹⁶ And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

⁷ Thereupon went the Accuser forth from the presence of the Lord, and he smote Job with a sore inflammation, from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. ⁸ And Job took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes. ⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die. ¹⁰ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the worthless women would speak. What? should we accept the good alone, from God, and the evil we should not accept? With all this did Job not sin with his lips.

²⁰ Then arose Job, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and prostrated himself. ²¹ And he 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; may the name of the Lord be blessed. ²² With all this did Job not sin, and attributed no injustice to God.

¹ There was a man in the land of ‘Uz, Job was his name; And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil.