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Chapter 1Preschool–Grade 5

Job 1: Job Worships God in Loss

Job lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless and upright, feared God, and turned away from evil. He had seven sons, three daughters, and great flocks and herds. Satan said Job feared God only because God blessed him, and God allowed Satan to test Job but not to touch Job himself. In one day Job lost his animals, his servants, and his children. Job tore his robe, fell to the ground, and worshiped. He said, Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh's name. In all this, Job did not sin.

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Chapter 2Preschool–Grade 5

Job 2: Job's Friends Come to Comfort Him

Satan came before Yahweh again, and God said Job still held fast his integrity. God allowed Satan to touch Job's body but to spare his life. Job was struck with painful sores from head to foot and sat among the ashes. His wife told him to renounce God, but Job said, Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, came to comfort him and sat with him seven days and seven nights without a word.

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Chapter 3Preschool–Grade 5

Job 3: Job Pours Out His Sorrow

After seven days of silence, Job speaks. He curses the day of his birth and wishes he had never been born. He asks why light and life are given to those in misery, and says he has no ease, no quiet, and no rest, but trouble comes. Job does not curse God; he pours out his honest grief.

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Chapter 4Preschool–Grade 5

Job 4: Eliphaz Speaks

Eliphaz the Temanite speaks first. He reminds Job that he once strengthened the weak and supported those who were falling. Then he asks who ever perished being innocent, and says those who plow iniquity reap trouble. He tells of a spirit that whispered to him at night: Shall mortal man be more just than God? Eliphaz assumes Job's suffering must come from sin, but at the end of the book God says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 5Preschool–Grade 5

Job 5: Eliphaz Says Seek God

Eliphaz continues. He says that man is born to trouble, and that if he were Job he would seek God and commit his cause to God, who does great things, gives rain on the earth, and lifts up the lowly. He says, happy is the man whom God corrects, for God wounds and binds up. Eliphaz says many true things about God, but he wrongly assumes Job is being punished for sin. God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 6Preschool–Grade 5

Job 6: Job Answers Eliphaz

Job answers that his anguish is heavier than the sand of the seas. He says he has not denied the words of the Holy One. He says a friend should show kindness to someone ready to faint, but his friends have been like a brook that dries up in the heat. He asks them to teach him and show him his error, and says his cause is righteous.

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Chapter 7Preschool–Grade 5

Job 7: Job Speaks to God

Job continues his reply and then turns to speak to God directly. He says his days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and that his life is a breath. He cannot rest at night, and he will not keep silent but will speak in the anguish of his spirit. He asks God what man is, that God should set His mind on him, and why God does not pardon him.

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Chapter 8Preschool–Grade 5

Job 8: Bildad Speaks

Bildad the Shuhite answers Job. He asks whether God perverts justice and tells Job to seek God diligently. He says that if Job were pure and upright, God would restore him. He tells Job to ask past generations and compares the godless to papyrus that withers without water. He says God will not cast away a blameless man. Bildad assumes Job's suffering proves sin, but God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 9Preschool–Grade 5

Job 9: Job Says No Umpire Stands Between Us

Job agrees that God is just, but asks how a man can be just with God. He praises God, who removes mountains, shakes the earth, stretches out the heavens, treads on the waves of the sea, and made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades. Yet Job feels he cannot answer God, and he wishes there were an umpire between them who could lay his hand on them both.

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Chapter 10Preschool–Grade 5

Job 10: Your Hands Made Me

Job's soul is weary, and he speaks in the bitterness of his soul. He asks God not to condemn him but to show him why He contends with him. Job remembers that God's hands framed and fashioned him like clay, clothed him with skin and flesh, knit him together with bones and sinews, and granted him life and loving kindness. Yet he cannot understand why God now seems against him.

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Chapter 11Preschool–Grade 5

Job 11: Zophar Speaks

Zophar the Naamathite answers Job harshly. He says Job's words should be answered and that God exacts less than Job's iniquity deserves. He asks whether Job can fathom the mystery of God, which is higher than heaven and deeper than Sheol. He tells Job to set his heart aright, stretch out his hands toward God, and put iniquity away, and promises that life will be clearer than noonday. Zophar assumes Job is guilty, but God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 12Preschool–Grade 5

Job 12: Ask the Animals

Job answers Zophar with sharp words: wisdom will not die with his friends, and he has understanding as well as they. He feels like a joke to his neighbors. He says to ask the animals, the birds, the earth, and the fish, for they know that Yahweh's hand has done this. In God's hand is the life of every living thing. With God is wisdom and might, counsel and understanding.

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Chapter 13Preschool–Grade 5

Job 13: Job Wants to Speak to God

Job tells his friends that he knows what they know. He calls them physicians of no value and says they would be wise to be silent. He asks whether they will speak unrighteously for God. Job says, Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. He sets his cause in order and asks God to call him and answer him, to show him his sins, and not to hide His face.

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Chapter 14Preschool–Grade 5

Job 14: Hope for a Tree

Job says that man, born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He grows up like a flower and is cut down. There is hope for a tree, for if it is cut down it will sprout again at the scent of water, but man dies and is laid low. Job asks, If a man dies, will he live again? He imagines God calling him and longing for the work of His hands.

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Chapter 15Preschool–Grade 5

Job 15: Eliphaz Speaks Again

Eliphaz speaks a second time, more sharply. He says Job's own mouth condemns him and that Job does away with the fear of God. He asks whether Job was the first man born, whether he has heard the secret counsel of God, and whether the consolations of God are too small for him. He describes the trouble of the wicked man, who will shake off his unripe grape like the vine. Eliphaz again assumes Job is wicked, but God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 16Preschool–Grade 5

Job 16: My Witness Is in Heaven

Job calls his friends miserable comforters. He says that if they were in his place, he would strengthen them with his mouth and relieve them with his lips. He describes how worn out and broken he feels. Yet he says, Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. His eyes pour out tears to God, and he longs for someone to maintain his right with God.

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Chapter 17Preschool–Grade 5

Job 17: Clean Hands Grow Stronger

Job says his spirit is consumed and mockers surround him. He asks God to give a pledge for him, for no one else will. He has become a byword, and his eye is dim with sorrow. Yet he says the righteous will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. He asks, Where then is my hope?

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Chapter 18Preschool–Grade 5

Job 18: Bildad Speaks Again

Bildad speaks a second time. He is offended that Job treats the friends as unclean. He describes the fate of the wicked: the light of the wicked will be put out, his lamp will go dark in his tent, traps will catch him, and his memory will perish. He ends, Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. Bildad means this for Job, but he is wrong about Job, and God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 19Preschool–Grade 5

Job 19: I Know My Redeemer Lives

Job asks his friends how long they will crush him with words. He feels that God has walled up his way, and that his brothers, relatives, servants, and friends have turned away. He begs, Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. He wishes his words were written in a book or engraved in rock forever. Then he declares, But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. He says he will see God in his flesh, on his side.

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Chapter 20Preschool–Grade 5

Job 20: Zophar Speaks Again

Zophar speaks a second time. He says the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment. He describes how the wicked man swallows riches and must give them back, and how the heavens will reveal his iniquity. He ends, This is the portion of a wicked man from God. Zophar means this for Job, but he is wrong about Job. God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 21Preschool–Grade 5

Job 21: Why Do the Wicked Prosper?

Job asks his friends to listen. He points out that the wicked often live, grow old, and become mighty. Their houses are safe and their children dance. They tell God, Depart from us. Some people die in full strength and others in bitterness, and they lie down alike in the dust. Job says, Shall any teach God knowledge? He ends by telling the friends that their answers contain only falsehood.

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Chapter 22Preschool–Grade 5

Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses Job

Eliphaz speaks a third time. He asks, Isn't your wickedness great? He accuses Job of taking pledges from his brother, stripping the naked, refusing water and bread to the needy, and sending widows away empty. None of this is true. Then he urges Job, Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace, and says the Almighty will be his treasure. God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 23Preschool–Grade 5

Job 23: I Will Come Out Like Gold

Job wishes he knew where to find God so he could set his cause before Him. He believes God would listen to him. He says, If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can't find him. Yet he says, But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. Job says he has kept God's way and treasured God's words more than his necessary food. He also admits that he is afraid in God's presence.

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Chapter 24Preschool–Grade 5

Job 24: God's Eyes Are on Their Ways

Job asks why God does not set times of judgment that people can see. He describes people who move landmarks, steal flocks, take the widow's ox, and push the needy aside, while the poor go hungry and cold. He describes those who rebel against the light and do evil in the dark. Yet Job says God's eyes are on their ways, and the wicked are brought low in a little while.

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Chapter 25Preschool–Grade 5

Job 25: Bildad's Short Speech

Bildad speaks a third and last time, very briefly. He says dominion and fear are with God, who makes peace in His high places. He asks, Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? Then he asks how man can be just with God, and he calls man a worm. Bildad's words about God's greatness are true, but he gives Job no comfort, and God later says the friends did not speak what is right (42:7).

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Chapter 26Preschool–Grade 5

Job 26: The Outskirts of His Ways

Job answers Bildad with sharp words: How have you helped him who is without power! Then Job describes God's power even more grandly than Bildad did. God stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in His thick clouds. Job ends, Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

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Chapter 27Preschool–Grade 5

Job 27: I Hold Fast to My Righteousness

Job continues speaking. He says that as long as he lives, his lips will not speak unrighteousness. He will not put away his integrity. I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. He says the godless have no hope when God takes away their life. He agrees that God judges the wicked, describing how the wicked man lies down rich but will not do so again.

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Chapter 28Preschool–Grade 5

Job 28: Where Will Wisdom Be Found?

Job describes how people mine deep in the earth for silver, gold, iron, and sapphires, bringing hidden things to light. But where will wisdom be found? It cannot be bought with gold or silver, and its price is above rubies. The deep and the sea say it is not in them. God understands its way, and He knows its place. To man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.

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Chapter 29Preschool–Grade 5

Job 29: Eyes to the Blind

Job remembers his past. He wishes for the days when God watched over him, when God's lamp shone on his head and the friendship of God was in his tent. People honored him at the city gate. He delivered the poor who cried and the fatherless who had no helper, and caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. He says, I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy.

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Chapter 30Preschool–Grade 5

Job 30: But Now

Job contrasts his past honor with his present pain. But now those who are younger than he mock him and spit in his face. Terrors have turned on him, and his welfare has passed away as a cloud. He cries to God and feels unanswered. He asks, Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy? When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came. His harp has turned to mourning.

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Chapter 31Preschool–Grade 5

Job 31: Job's Final Defense

Job makes his final defense. He says he made a covenant with his eyes, and he asks God to weigh him in an even balance. He lists sins he has not done: he has not withheld help from the poor, eaten his food alone while the fatherless went hungry, made gold his hope, rejoiced when an enemy fell, or shut his doors to the traveler. He says, Doesn't he see my ways, and count all my steps? He asks the Almighty to answer him. The words of Job are ended.

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Chapter 32Preschool–Grade 5

Job 32: Elihu Waits to Speak

The three friends stop answering Job. A younger man named Elihu has been listening. He is angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God, and angry with the friends because they found no answer and yet condemned Job. Elihu had waited because they were older. He says, It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice, for the Spirit of the Almighty gives understanding. He says he is full of words and will not flatter anyone.

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Chapter 33Preschool–Grade 5

Job 33: God Speaks Once, Yes Twice

Elihu speaks to Job directly. He says, The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. He says he is formed out of the clay just as Job is. He tells Job that God is greater than man and that God speaks once, yes twice, though people pay no attention, in dreams and through pain. God keeps back a person's soul from the pit. Elihu says, He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.

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Chapter 34Preschool–Grade 5

Job 34: God Will Not Do Wickedly

Elihu speaks to the wise men. He says the ear tries words as the palate tastes food. He says, Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice. God's eyes are on the ways of a man, and there is no darkness where evildoers may hide. Elihu says Job speaks without knowledge. He goes too far when he wishes Job were tried to the end and says Job adds rebellion to his sin.

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Chapter 35Preschool–Grade 5

Job 35: Look to the Skies

Elihu tells Job to look to the skies, which are higher than he. He says that if Job sins, he does not harm God, and if Job is righteous, God receives nothing from him. People cry out because of oppression, but they do not ask, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night? Elihu says God will not hear an empty cry, and he tells Job that the cause is before God, and Job must wait for Him.

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Chapter 36Preschool–Grade 5

Job 36: God Is Mighty and Despises No One

Elihu says he still has something to say on God's behalf. Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. God gives justice to the afflicted, opens their ears to instruction, and delivers the afflicted by their affliction. Elihu warns Job not to let riches or bitterness turn him aside. He says, Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. He describes God's power in the clouds, the rain, and the lightning.

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Chapter 37Preschool–Grade 5

Job 37: Consider the Wondrous Works of God

Elihu's heart trembles at the thunder of God's voice. God sends lightning to the ends of the earth, says to the snow, Fall on the earth, and freezes the waters by His breath. Elihu says, Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. He asks whether Job knows how God controls the clouds. He ends, We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. Therefore men revere him.

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Chapter 38Preschool–Grade 5

Job 38: Yahweh Answers Job out of the Whirlwind

Yahweh answers Job out of the whirlwind. He asks, Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Then He asks Job, Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? God asks Job about the sea, the morning, the snow and hail, the rain, the stars, and the lightning. He ends by asking who provides for the raven his prey. God does not explain Job's suffering, but He shows Job that He is the wise and caring Creator of all things.

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Chapter 39Preschool–Grade 5

Job 39: God Cares for the Wild Animals

God continues His questions to Job. He asks about the mountain goats giving birth, the wild donkey roaming free, the wild ox that will not serve Job, the ostrich that runs faster than a horse, the strong war horse, and the hawk and eagle. He asks, Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up? God shows that He made, knows, and cares for every creature.

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Chapter 40Preschool–Grade 5

Job 40: Job Puts His Hand on His Mouth

Yahweh asks, Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? Job answers, Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. God speaks again out of the whirlwind and asks, Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? God tells Job to look at behemoth, a mighty beast that God made as well as Job. Only God, who made him, can rule him.

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Chapter 41Preschool–Grade 5

Job 41: Leviathan and the Lord of All

God asks Job, Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? Leviathan is a fearsome sea creature that no person can tame or capture. God says, None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. God describes Leviathan's scales, breath, and strength. He is king over all the sons of pride, yet God made him and rules him.

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Chapter 42Preschool–Grade 5

Job 42: Now My Eye Sees You

Job answers Yahweh, I know that you can do all things. He says, I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Job repents in dust and ashes. Yahweh tells Eliphaz that He is angry with him and his two friends, for they have not spoken of Him what is right, as His servant Job has. The friends offer a burnt offering, and Job prays for them. Yahweh restores Job's prosperity and gives him twice as much as before. Job has seven sons and three daughters and lives one hundred forty years.

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