Selected Verses from the book of Job by Tuese Ahkiong

Selected Verses from the book of Job
by Tuese Ahkiong

DEATH, LIFE, EVIL, DESTRUCTION, HEALTH, PROSPERITY, BLESSINGS, AFFLICTIONS, GOOD, ILL FROM GOD

Job 1:20-22 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

***After Job loses his business, cattle, servants, children, he states that The LORD gave them to him and the LORD has taken them away.  Evil means were used to take from Job and he attributed the ultimate agent behind the acts was THE LORD.

Job 2:7-10 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”10 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 did not sin with his lips in stating to his wife that they receive not only good from God but they also receive evil from God.

Job 42:10-11 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. 11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

***Notice how The Word of God states that the LORD was the one that ultimately brought evil upon Job though in the story secondary agents are used, i.e., satan.


GOD HOLDS YOUR LIFE AND YOUR NEXT BREATH IN HIS HAND

Job 12:10  In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.   

Job 32:8  But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Job 33:4  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

GOD IS ETERNAL, UNSEARCHABLE
Job 11:7-9 "Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are higher than heaven; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know? 9 Their measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea.


GOD DOES WHATEVER HE PLEASES

Job 23:13-14 "But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatever His soul desires, that He does. 14 For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such things are with Him. That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Job 42:2 "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

GOD OWNS EVERYTHING

Job 41:11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

GOD CONTROLS HUMAN HISTORY

Job 14:5 Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.