And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you (A)considered my (B)servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, (C)a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

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And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still (A)holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him (B)without reason.”

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Job's Character and Wealth

There was a man in the land of (A)Uz whose name was (B)Job, and that man was (C)blameless and upright, one who (D)feared God and (E)turned away from evil.

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Not so with (A)my servant Moses. (B)He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak (C)mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in (D)riddles, and he beholds (E)the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

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16 (A)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(B)cease to do evil,

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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and (D)perverted speech I hate.

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20 “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
    nor take the hand of evildoers.

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25 (A)Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.

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11 For the Lord God is (A)a sun and (B)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
(C)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who (D)walk uprightly.

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11 My foot (A)has held fast to his steps;
    I have kept his way and have (B)not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
    I have (C)treasured the words of his mouth more than my (D)portion of food.

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Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

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39 (A)One of the criminals who were hanged (B)railed at him,[a] saying, “Are you not (C)the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:39 Or blasphemed him

The Lord's Chosen Servant

42 (A)Behold (B)my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, (C)in whom my soul delights;
(D)I have put my Spirit upon him;
    (E)he will bring forth justice to the nations.

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27 (A)Turn away from evil and do good;
    so shall you (B)dwell forever.

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How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love

To the choirmaster. Of David, the (A)servant of the Lord.

36 Transgression speaks to the wicked
    deep in his heart;[a]
(B)there is no fear of God
    before his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 36:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart

23 I was (A)blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from my guilt.

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The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz (A)the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore take (B)seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and (C)offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall (D)pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

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14 If he should (A)set his heart to it
    and (B)gather to himself his (C)spirit and his breath,

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The upright are (A)appalled at this,
    and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Yet the righteous holds to his way,
    and he who has (B)clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

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I am (A)a laughingstock to my friends;
    I, who (B)called to God and he answered me,
    a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
    ‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (B)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration[a] forty shekels[b] of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, (A)because of the fear of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:15 Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them for food and wine after
  2. Nehemiah 5:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

30 so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all (A)the people of the east (B)and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was (C)wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.

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Only be strong and (A)very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law (B)that Moses my servant commanded you. (C)Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[a] wherever you go.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 1:7 Or may act wisely

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