Quotes from Job

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

2. 3

   Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.

3. 4

   Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

4. 5

   My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

5. 6

   Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

6. 7

   Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

7. 8

   There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

8. 9

   When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

9. 10

   Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

10. 11

    Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

11. 12

    Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

12. 13

    Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

13. 14

    But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

14. 15

    And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

15. 16

    I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

16. 17

    Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

17. 18

    Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

18. 19

    No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

19. 20

    I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

20. 21

    He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

21. 22

    My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

22. 23

    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.