The suffering righteous man · Patriarchal setting
Job in the Bible
Job loses his children, wealth and health, and refuses both his friends' tidy explanations and his wife's advice to curse God. The answer he finally receives from the whirlwind is not an argument but a tour of creation.
Verses mentioning Job
67 occurrences across 55 verses in the King James Version.
- Job 42:16
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Read in context - Job 42:17
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Read in context - Ezekiel 14:14
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
Read in context - Ezekiel 14:20
Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Read in context - James 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Read in context