Job 1:2

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

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.