When God sends us something good, we welcome it. How can we complain when he sends us trouble?
(Job 2:10)
I was born with nothing, and I will die with nothing.
(Job 2:21)
In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last....Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.
(Job 3:17,19)
I heard a voice out of the silence: Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?
(Job 4:17)
It is God who raises the humble and gives joy to all who mourn.
(Job 5:11)
God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.
(Job 5:18)
Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor, like a slave longing for cool shade; like a worker waiting to be paid.
(Job 7:1-2)
Like a cloud that fades and is gone, we humans die and never return; we are forgotten by all who knew us.
(Job 7:9-10)
What is man that you make so much lf him, that you give him so much attention?
(Job 7:17)
Has my sin harmed you, O God?
(Job 7:20, Living Bible)
Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth.
(Job 8:9)
The wisdom of the past will teach you. The experience of others will speak to you, reminding you that those who forget God have no hope.
(Job 8:10-13, Living Bible)
A man without God is trusting in a spiders web.
(Job 8:14, Living Bible)
God will not cast away a good man.
(Job 8:20, Living Bible)
How can a mortal be righteous before God?
(Job 9:2)
God passes by but I cannot see him.
(Job 9:11)
The pride of man collapses before him.
(Job 9:13, Living Bible)
Even if I were perfect, God would prove me wicked.
(Job 9:20, Living Bible)
You are no mere man as I am.
(Job 9:32, Living Bible)
There are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge
(Job 11:6)
God knows the world of the dead.
(Job 11:8)
Put your heart right.
(Job 11:13)
You will have courage because you will have hope.
(Job 11:18, Living Bible)
It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; every man’s life is in his power.
(Job 12:10)
He sends light to places dark as death.
(Job 12:22)
Do you think you can fool God the way you fool others?
(Job 13:9, Good News Bible)
How can you demand purity in one born impure?
(Job 14:4, Living Bible)
We die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?
(Job 14:10)
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
(Job 15:4, Living Bible)
Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?
(Job 15:14)
If they are foolish enough to trust in evil, then evil will be their reward.
(Job 15:31, Good News Bible)
There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.
(Job 16:19, Good News Bible)
Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.
(Job 16:22)
I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last - the Last One - He will stand upon the earth.
(Job 19:25 / 16:19)
I will see God. I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger.
(Job 19:26-27)
Is there anyone, even the wisest, who could ever be of use to God? Does our doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?
(Job 22:1-3, Good News Bible)
Make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy.
(Job 22:21, Good News Bible)
You must humbly return to God.
(Job 22:23)
The Almighty himself shall be your treasure; he will be your precious silver!
(Job 22:25, Living Bible)
God brings down the proud and saves the humble.
(Job 22:29, Good News Bible)
Oh, that I know where to find God - that I could go to his throne and talk with him there.
(Job 23:3, Living Bible)
It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid.
(Job 23:16)
God, in his strength, destroys the mighty.
(Job 24:22)
Is there any place where God’s light does not shine?
(Job 25:3)
What is man worth in God’s eyes?
(Job 25:6)
The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.
(Job 26:6, Good News Bible)
The heavens are made beautiful by his spirt.
(Job 26:13, Living Bible)
How faint the whisper we hear of him.
(Job 26:14)
God said to us humans, “To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil.”
(Job 28:28)
The same God who created me created my servants also.
(Job 31:15)
For if the majesty of God opposes me, what hope is there?
(Job 31:23, Living Bible)
It is not mere age that makes men wise. Rather, it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty which makes him intelligent
(Job 32:8-9)
God’s spirit made me and gave me life.
(Job 33:4)
You and I are the same in God’s sight, both of us were formed from clay.
(Job 33:6)
God is greater than man. Why should you fight against him just because he does not give account to you of what he does?
(Job 33:12, Living Bible)
God often does these things for man - brings back his soul from the pit so that he may live in the light of the living.
(Job 33:29-30, Living Bible)
God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
(Job 34:12)
If God were to withdraw his Spirit, all life would disappear and mankind would turn again to dust.
(Job 34:14-15, Living Bible)
He does not take the side of rulers nor favor the rich over the poor, for he created everyone.
(Job 34:19)
There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner from God.
(Job 34:22)
God simply shatters the greatest of men, and puts others in their place.
(Job 34:24, Living Bible)
There is nothing God needs from you.
(Job 35:7)
God is mighty, but does not despise men.
(Job 36:5)
God teaches men through suffering and uses distress to open their eyes.
(Job 36:15)
Don’t let your anger at others lead you into scoffing at God! Don’t let your suffering embitter you at the only one who can deliver you.
(Job 36:18, Living Bible)
We cannot fully know his greatness.
(Job 36:26)
At God’s command amazing things happen, wonderful things that we can’t understand.
(Job 37:5)
God’s power is so great that we cannot come near him.
(Job 37:23)
The Lord answered Job out of the storm.
(Job 38:1)
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
(Job 41:11)