Old Testament

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? < Job 41:6 | > Job 41:8 Reflection Job 41:7 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By […]

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. < Job 41:7 | > Job 41:9 Reflection Job 41:8 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing hand, remember, […]

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? < Job 41:8 | > Job 41:10 Reflection Job 41:9 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but […]

Then Job answered the LORD, and said, < Job 41:34 | > Job 42:2 Reflection Job 42:1 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing answered, lord, it invites the reader […]

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. < Job 42:9 | > Job 42:11 Reflection Job 42:10 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. […]

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a […]

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. < Job 42:11 | > Job 42:13 Reflection Job 42:12 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws […]

He had also seven sons and three daughters. < Job 42:12 | > Job 42:14 Reflection Job 42:13 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing seven, sons, three, daughters, it […]

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. < Job 42:13 | > Job 42:15 Reflection Job 42:14 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may […]

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. < Job 42:14 | > Job 42:16 Reflection Job 42:15 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This […]

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. < Job 42:15 | > Job 42:17 Reflection Job 42:16 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but […]

So Job died, being old and full of days. < Job 42:16 Reflection Job 42:17 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing died, full, days, it invites the reader to […]

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. < Job 42:1 | > Job 42:3 Reflection Job 42:2 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. < Job 42:2 | > Job 42:4 Reflection Job 42:3 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This […]

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. < Job 42:3 | > Job 42:5 Reflection Job 42:4 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words […]

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. < Job 42:4 | > Job 42:6 Reflection Job 42:5 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. < Job 42:5 | > Job 42:7 Reflection Job 42:6 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing wherefore, abhor, myself, […]

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. < Job 42:6 | > Job […]

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing […]

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. < Job 42:8 | > Job 42:10 Reflection Job 42:9 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. […]

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? < Job 4:21 | > Job 5:2 Reflection Job 5:1 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its […]

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: < Job 5:9 | > Job 5:11 Reflection Job 5:10 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing giveth, […]

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. < Job 5:10 | > Job 5:12 Reflection Job 5:11 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words […]

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. < Job 5:11 | > Job 5:13 Reflection Job 5:12 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. […]

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. < Job 5:12 | > Job 5:14 Reflection Job 5:13 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. < Job 5:13 | > Job 5:15 Reflection Job 5:14 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. < Job 5:14 | > Job 5:16 Reflection Job 5:15 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words […]

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. < Job 5:15 | > Job 5:17 Reflection Job 5:16 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing poor, hope, iniquity, […]

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: < Job 5:16 | > Job 5:18 Reflection Job 5:17 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. < Job 5:17 | > Job 5:19 Reflection Job 5:18 sits within Job, wisdom literature about suffering, where Scripture often draws attention to faith, lament, divine sovereignty, and endurance. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By […]