Job.
Job KWL.
Job 1.
1 In the land of Utz was a man named Job.
He was moral and righteous, feared God, shunned evil.
2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
3 He possessed seven flocks of sheep, three herds of camels,
500 pairs of oxen, 500 donkeys, and very many slaves.
He was the greatest man of all the sons of antiquity.
4 His seven sons went out and each of them held a feast, one man per weekday.
They invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5 During the feast days, Job sent them out to be sanctified:
He rose early in the morning and offered entire burnt offerings for all 10 of them,
for Job said, “In case my children sinned, and offended God in their hearts.”
Job did such things all the time.
6 The day came when God’s children came to stand before the LORD,
and Satan also came among them.
7 The LORD told Satan, “Where’d you come from?”
Satan told the LORD in reply, “Here and there. Walking the earth.”
8 The LORD told Satan, “Have you taken any thought to my slave Job?
For there’s no one like him on earth: Moral, righteous, fears God, shuns evil.”
9 Satan told the LORD in reply, “Job fears God for no reason.
10 Don’t you wall around him, his house, all he has, round about?
You bless his handiwork, and his possessions fill the land. 11 Now please:
Stretch out your hand and touch all he has. He won’t publicly bless you then.”
12 The LORD told Satan, “Look, everything he has is in your hand.
But don’t stretch out your hand upon him.”
Satan went forth from the LORD’s face.
13 On the day Job’s sons and daughters ate and drank wine in the firstborn brother’s house,
14 a herald came to Job and said,
“The oxen were plowing, the donkeys grazing on either side, 15 and the Sabeans invaded.
They took them. They killed the herdsmen with the sword’s edge.
I alone escaped to tell you.”
16 As this one still spoke, another came and said, “God’s fire fell from the sky!
It burned up the flock and consumed the herdsmen.
I alone escaped to tell you.”
17 As the second one still spoke, another came and said, “Babylonians! They made three groups!
They raided the camels, and took them. They killed the herdsmen with the sword’s edge.
I alone escaped to tell you.”
18 As the third one still spoke, another came and said, “Your sons and daughters
were eating and drinking wine in the firstborn brother’s house
19 and look, a great wind came across the fields, touched the four corners of the house,
and it fell on the youths and they died.
I alone escaped to tell you.”
20 Job rose, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground, and worshiped.
21 Job said, “I came naked from my mother’s belly. I’ll return that way just as naked.
The LORD gives; the LORD takes. But the LORD’s name is blessed.”
22 Despite all this, Job didn’t sin, and didn’t accuse God.
Job 2.
1 The day came when God’s children came to stand before the LORD,
and Satan also came among them to stand before the LORD.
2 The LORD told Satan, “Where’d you come from?”
Satan told the LORD in reply, “Here and there. Walking the earth.”
3 The LORD told Satan, “Have you taken any thought to my slave Job?
For there’s no one like him on earth: Moral, righteous, fears God, shuns evil.
And he stays consistent, even though you incite me against him,
to destroy him for no reason.”
4 Satan told the LORD in reply, “That’s skin-deep. A man gives all he has for his life. 5 Now please:
Stretch out your hand and touch his flesh and bone. He won’t publicly bless you then.”
6 The LORD told Satan, “Look, he’s in your hand. But keep him alive.”
7 Satan went forth from the LORD’s face.
It struck Job with evil boils, from the sole of his foot to his scalp.
8 Job got himself a pottery shard to scratch himself with.
He sat in the middle of the garbage fire ashes.
9 Job’s woman told him, “You still stay consistent? Bless God—and die!”
10 Job told her, “You speak like one of the fools would.
We always accept good from God; can’t we accept evil?”
In all this he said, Job didn’t sin.
Job 8.
20 “Look, God doesn’t reject the pure. He doesn’t strengthen evildoers’ hands.”
Job 19.
25 “I myself know my savior lives.
On the Last Day he’ll stand on the dust, 26 after this skin is flayed off of my flesh.
I will see God. 27 Whom I will see. By me. My eyes will see.
Not some stranger, though my kidneys are failing.”
Job 42.
10 As he prayed for his friends, the LORD reversed what’d been driven away from Job.
The LORD added double to everything Job owned.
11 All Job’s brothers and sisters came to him, and all who knew his face.
They ate bread with him in his house. They mourned with him.
They sympathized with him over all the evil the LORD brought on him.
Each man gave him one silver coin and and one gold earring.
12 The LORD blessed Job’s end more than his beginning.
He possessed 14 flocks of sheep, six herds of camels,
1,000 pairs of oxen, and 1,000 donkeys.
13 Seven sons and three daughters were born to Job.
14 Job gave one daughter the name Imimá/“pigeon.”
The second, the name Qechihá/“cassia.”
The third, the name Qerén-Hapúkh/“antimony horn.”
15 In all the land, one couldn’t find women as beautiful as Job’s daughters.
Their father gave them inheritances, same as their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived 140 years. He saw children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
17 Job died old, with abundant days.