Job

Job, a blameless man, suffers catastrophic loss. Friends offer tidy explanations; Job protests; God speaks from the whirlwind. The book refuses easy answers and ends with encounter, restoration, and worship.

Author: Unknown
Date: Unknown; events patriarchal
Theme: Suffering, integrity, and the fear of the Lord.
Key verses: Job 1:21; Job 19:25; Job 42:5-6
Clementine Vulgate

Job 25

1Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit: 2[Potestas et terror apud eum est, qui facit concordiam in sublimibus suis. 3Numquid est numerus militum ejus? et super quem non surget lumen illius? 4Numquid justificari potest homo comparatus Deo? aut apparere mundus natus de muliere? 5Ecce luna etiam non splendet, et stell non sunt mund in conspectu ejus: 6quanto magis homo putredo, et filius hominis vermis?]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.