Reading Plan
Comprehensive Reading Plan (365 days) New Testament Reading Plan (83 days) Old Testament Plan (282 days) Old/New Testament Plan (365 days) Survey Reading Plan (61 days) Through-the-Bible Reading Plan (365 days)
Bible Version
Apostles' Bible Complete (2004) King James Version (1769) New King James Version (1982) Today's English Version (Good News Bible) (1992) Voice In Wilderness (2006)
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Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.
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You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.
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When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.
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Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.
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You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.
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Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.
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I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.
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Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.
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The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.
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Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.
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Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.
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Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.
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I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.
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A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.
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I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:
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"Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?
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God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.
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Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?
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We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.
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All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom."
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Call out, Job. See if anyone answers. Is there any angel to whom you can turn?
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To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do.
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I have seen fools who looked secure, but I called down a sudden curse on their homes.
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Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.
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Hungry people will eat the fool's crops--- even the grain growing among thorns --- and thirsty people will envy his wealth.
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Evil does not grow in the soil, nor does trouble grow out of the ground.
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No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.
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If I were you, I would turn to God and present my case to him.
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We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.
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He sends rain on the land and he waters the fields.
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Yes, it is God who raises the humble and gives joy to all who mourn.
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He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;
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even at noon they grope in darkness.
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But God saves the poor from death; he saves the needy from oppression.
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He gives hope to the poor and silences the wicked.
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Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.
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God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.
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Time after time he will save you from harm;
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when famine comes, he will keep you alive, and in war protect you from death.
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God will rescue you from slander; he will save you when destruction comes.
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You will laugh at violence and hunger and not be afraid of wild animals.
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The fields you plow will be free of rocks; wild animals will never attack you.
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Then you will live at peace in your tent; when you look at your sheep, you will find them safe.
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You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.
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Like wheat that ripens till harvest time, you will live to a ripe old age.
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Job, we have learned this by long study. It is true, so now accept it.
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If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales,
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they would weigh more than the sands of the sea, so my wild words should not surprise you.
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Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.
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A donkey is content when eating grass, and a cow is quiet when eating hay.
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But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?
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I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.
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Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?
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If only he would go ahead and kill me!
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If I knew he would, I would leap for joy, no matter how great my pain. I know that God is holy; I have never opposed what he commands.
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What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?
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Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?
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I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.
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In trouble like this I need loyal friends--- whether I've forsaken God or not.
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But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.
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The streams are choked with snow and ice,
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but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.
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Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.
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Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,
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but their hope dies beside dry streams.
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You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.
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Have I asked you to give me a gift or to bribe someone on my behalf
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or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?
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All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.
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Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.
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You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?
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You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
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Look me in the face. I won't lie.
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You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.
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But you think I am lying--- you think I can't tell right from wrong.
