20 Key Verses from the Book of Job
Job is a long book, with 42 chapters. Below you will find some key verses from the Book of Job. These verses were chosen because of their importance in the story of Job or because of their stand-alone truth. Note that the context of Job is very important to understanding each of the individual chapters. Job really needs to be read from beginning to end to capture the wisdom contained within it.
Key Bible Verses from Job
“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.”
Job 1:20-22 (ESV)
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“Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”
Job 2:9-10 (ESV)
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“And when [his friends] saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.”
Job 2:12-13 (ESV)
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““Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,”
Job 3:11-13 (ESV)
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“The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.”
Job 4:11 (ESV)
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“Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.”
Job 8:19-21 (NIV)
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“Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.”
Job 9:15 (ESV)
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“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.”
Job 12:13 (ESV)
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“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.”
Job 19:24 (ESV)
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“By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.”
Job 26:13 (ESV)
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“And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Job 28:28 (ESV)
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“But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.”
Job 32:8-9 (ESV)
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“You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy, he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’
“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?”
Job 33:9-13 (ESV)
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“For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;”
Job 33:14-17 (ESV)
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“Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.”
Job 37:13 (ESV)
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“Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”
Job 38:1-2 (ESV)
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“Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.”
Job 37:13 (ESV)
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“Will you even put me (the Lord) in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?”
Job 40:8-9 (ESV)
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““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
Job 42:2-3 (ESV)
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“And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”
Job 42:10 (ESV)
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