Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job?(A) There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God(B) and shuns evil.”(C)

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Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.(A) And he still maintains his integrity,(B) though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”(C)

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Prologue

In the land of Uz(A) there lived a man whose name was Job.(B) This man was blameless(C) and upright;(D) he feared God(E) and shunned evil.(F)

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16 Wash(A) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(B)
    stop doing wrong.(C)

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13 To fear the Lord(A) is to hate evil;(B)
    I hate(C) pride and arrogance,
    evil behavior and perverse speech.

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25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned(A) to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.(B)

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But this is not true of my servant Moses;(A)
    he is faithful in all my house.(B)
With him I speak face to face,
    clearly and not in riddles;(C)
    he sees the form of the Lord.(D)
Why then were you not afraid
    to speak against my servant Moses?”(E)

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20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless(A)
    or strengthen the hands of evildoers.(B)

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11 My feet have closely followed his steps;(A)
    I have kept to his way without turning aside.(B)
12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips;(C)
    I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.(D)

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15 But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God(A) I did not act like that.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:15 That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams

39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”(A)

40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?

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The Servant of the Lord

42 “Here is my servant,(A) whom I uphold,
    my chosen one(B) in whom I delight;(C)
I will put my Spirit(D) on him,
    and he will bring justice(E) to the nations.(F)

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27 Turn from evil and do good;(A)
    then you will dwell in the land forever.(B)

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Psalm 36[a]

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord.

I have a message from God in my heart
    concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[b](A)
There is no fear(B) of God
    before their eyes.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 36:1 In Hebrew texts 36:1-12 is numbered 36:2-13.
  2. Psalm 36:1 Or A message from God: The transgression of the wicked / resides in their hearts.

14 Turn from evil and do good;(A)
    seek peace(B) and pursue it.

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23 I have been blameless(A) before him
    and have kept myself from sin.

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Epilogue

After the Lord had said these things to Job(A), he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends,(B) because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.(C) So now take seven bulls and seven rams(D) and go to my servant Job(E) and sacrifice a burnt offering(F) for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer(G) and not deal with you according to your folly.(H) You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”(I)

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14 If it were his intention
    and he withdrew his spirit[a](A) and breath,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:14 Or Spirit

The upright are appalled at this;
    the innocent are aroused(A) against the ungodly.
Nevertheless, the righteous(B) will hold to their ways,
    and those with clean hands(C) will grow stronger.(D)

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“I have become a laughingstock(A) to my friends,(B)
    though I called on God and he answered(C)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(D)

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30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East,(A) and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.(B) 31 He was wiser(C) than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite—wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.

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“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey(A) all the law(B) my servant Moses(C) gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left,(D) that you may be successful wherever you go.(E)

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(Now Moses was a very humble man,(A) more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

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47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite(A) in whom there is no deceit.”(B)

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The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you,(A) for that is why you have been brought here. Tell(B) the people of Israel everything you see.(C)

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