Job 3:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Job spoke up and said:

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  • Judg 18:14 : 14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

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    1 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:

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    1 Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:

    2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

  • Job 21:1-3
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    1 Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

    2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.

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  • 1 Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

  • 3 “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

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    1 Job’s Reply to God’s Challenge Then the LORD answered Job:

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    1 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job replied:

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    1 VI. The Divine Speeches(38:1-42:6)The Lord’s First Speech Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

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  • Job 42:6-7
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    6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

    7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

  • Job 1:21-22
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    21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”

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  • Job 2:9-10
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    9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

    10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

  • 6 The Lord’s Second Speech Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

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  • 1 Zophar’s Second Speech Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

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    31 Pay attention, Job– listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

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  • 1 Eliphaz Begins to Speak Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

  • 1 Eliphaz’s Second Speech Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

  • 35 that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.

  • 3 With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

  • 9 Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

  • 1 Elihu’s Second Speech Elihu answered:

  • 1 א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

  • 1 Bildad’s Third Speech Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

  • 16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”