Job 1:20-22 New International Version (NIV) 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,     and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;...

Job 1:8 New International Version (NIV) 8 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.” Job was a model of trust and obedience to God. Yet, God...

Job 1:6-12 New International Version (NIV) 6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b]also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back...

Job 1:5 New International Version (NIV) 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and...

Job 1:1 New International Version (NIV) Prologue 1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Job lost everything. It was not his fault. He struggles to understand why it all happened to...

Genesis 50:24-26 New International Version (NIV) 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” 25 And Joseph made the...