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Top 7 Bible Verses About Job

Top 7 Bible Verses About Job

Last updated on: May 19, 2016 at 6:20 pm by Jack Wellman

Top 7 Bible Verses About Job 2016-05-19T18:20:37-05:00 Jack Wellman

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Here are seven important Bible verse about Job.

Job 1:1 “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.”

The Book of Job is a contemporary of the Book of Genesis and is known to be the oldest book in the Bible. In this book, we are introduced to Job who is blameless before God and walks uprightly before Him. He even makes offerings for his children, just in case the “children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts” (Job 1:5). Maybe that’s why Satan angered enough over Job that he asked to afflict Job to prove to God that he’d curse His Maker (Job 1:11) so after God asked 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?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason” (Job 1:8-9). When God removes the hedge, Satan’s allowed to afflict Job but he could not take his life (Job 1:12).

Job 1:20-22 “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.”

After having lost all that he had, including all of his children, his livestock, his crops, and all his possessions, he could only say, to the glory of God, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away.” What a powerful statement of trust in God. He isn’t looking to his circumstances, he is looking to God and saying, “blessed be the name of the Lord.” Through all of this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

Job 37:24 “Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

The Apostle Peter said something very similar to what Job said in Acts 10:34-35 where he said, “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him” (Acts 10:34) as “God shows no partiality” (Rom 2:11), therefore, “the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness” (1st Cor 3:19).

Job 38:2-3 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man. I will question you, and you make it known to me.”

Job finally gets his answer and it is directly from God, so God asks Job, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth” (Job 38:4a), and tauntingly, “Who determined its measurements—surely you know” (Job 38:4a) or “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion” (Job 38:31)? It’s very much like what Isaiah wrote: “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’” (Isaiah 45:9)?

Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

By the time God was finished with Job, Job was on his face, in the dirt, in repentance and brokenness, and by the way, that’s the best place to be when you’re enduring trials and you’re not sure why. Incidentally, God is highly pleased when you say, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Even so, blessed be the name of the Lord!” When we are at our lowest ebb, we are nearest to God. Even on a mountaintop, the safest place to be is on your knees!

Job 42:12 “And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning.”

Job intervened on behalf of his friends and ended up with ten more children than he had to begin with. Some say that’s not really adding to his blessing but think about this, he lost ten children whom he will see again someday and hopefully, the latter ten children will enter the kingdom, and he’ll have twenty in all. Blessed be the name of the Lord for His blessings on Job and his family.

Ezekiel 14:14 “Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God “

It was very difficult selecting only seven Bible verses about Job because there’s so very much in this book. This is considered part of the Bible’s “wisdom literature” and much of the wisdom of God is found in it no less than in the Book of Proverbs or in the New Testament “wisdom literature” of the Book of James. Centuries later, Job’s righteousness was still being spoken of and written about, but in the context of Ezekiel 14, it comes with a strong judgment rendered toward Israel. They had fallen into idolatry so deeply that even the combined righteousness of Noah, Daniel, and Job wouldn’t be enough to save them. That’s how highly they thought of Job, even though he lived hundreds of years before them.

Conclusion

God never did explain to Job why he had to go through such suffering. He may not explain it all to us either. Job was okay with that in the end. God doesn’t waste suffering because it can be used for His glory. Just look at the cross and Jesus to see how that is so. The Apostle Paul puts it this way: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom 8:18). Job would agree. Job looked forward to seeing God, saying “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me” (Job 19:25-27)!

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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