Job 42

²⁶Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

²⁷Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

¹⁴Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

¹²For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

¹⁷“Oh, Lord God! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

¹⁰I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

¹A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.

²“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

²Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

³I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

⁷“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

³Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

³⁰Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”

³¹And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”

²⁷Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

¹⁷Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

⁴⁵And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

⁵Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.”

¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

⁴¹Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.

⁶and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

¹³I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

¹⁴And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

⁷Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

³Then Job answered the Lord:

⁴“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

³So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

¹⁹He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

²This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

³and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

⁵But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

⁶and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

⁵But when he saw that the three men had no further reply, his anger was kindled.

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

⁴Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

¹Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

¹⁶Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

¹⁷Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

²⁶And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

³⁰He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

⁸By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

⁶“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

⁷Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

¹¹My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, and do not loathe His rebuke;

¹²for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

²⁴Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

¹⁴The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

³then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the Lord your God has scattered you.

⁶if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

⁷Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

⁴The rewards of humility and the fear of the Lord are wealth and honor and life.

²“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.”

⁷Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

⁷Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

¹³He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

¹⁴My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

²²And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

⁷When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

¹²Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

⁷Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

⁸The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

²²The blessing of the Lord enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

³⁵“The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

¹³Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

¹⁴Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

³and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

²He had seven sons and three daughters,

³Children are indeed a heritage from the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

⁴¹But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

²⁰Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

⁷“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

¹²Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

⁴Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

¹⁸One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

¹⁹“Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

⁶Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

²³He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

⁶that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

⁷Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

²⁸And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

²⁶So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

⁸And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁵You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

²⁶You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

²so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the Lord your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

¹⁶Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.