LXX Concordance for Ιωβ

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for[fn] all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job's regular practice.

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.[fn]

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[fn]

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Then Job answered:

Job continued his discourse, saying:

Job continued his discourse, saying:

then let thorns grow instead of wheat

and stinkweed instead of barley.

The words of Job are concluded.

So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But now, Job, pay attention to my speech,

and listen to all my words.

For Job has declared, “I am righteous,

yet God has deprived me of justice.

What man is like Job?

He drinks derision like water.

“Job speaks without knowledge;

his words are without insight.”

Job opens his mouth in vain

and multiplies words without knowledge.

Then Job answered the LORD:

Then Job replied to the LORD:

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

“Even if these three men ​— ​Noah, Daniel, and Job ​— ​were in it, they would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live” ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“they could not rescue their son or daughter. They would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.

a messenger came to Job and reported, “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, “God's fire fell from heaven. It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

So Satan left the LORD's presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

He was also angry at Job's three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.[fn]

I paid close attention to you.

Yet no one proved Job wrong;

not one of you refuted his arguments.

Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

The LORD answered Job:

Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

“Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

One day when Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

“Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

So the LORD blessed the last part of Job's life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

No women as beautiful as Job's daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me.

Be quiet, and I will speak.

If only Job were tested to the limit,

because his answers are like those of wicked men.

Listen to this, Job.

Stop and consider God's wonders.