Job
of Uz
Man of Uz who lost his children and property, was afflicted with sores, disputed with three friends, and afterwards received twice as much as before.
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The Patience of Job and the Lord's End
10Brothers and sisters, think about the prophets, the people who spoke God's words to others. They went through hard times and kept waiting. Let them be your example.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
A prophet was a person who told others what God said. Many prophets were treated badly for saying it.
11We say that people who keep going through hard times are happy. You have heard how Job kept going. You have seen what the Lord did for him at the end. The Lord is full of pity and kindness.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Job was a man in an Old Testament book. He lost almost everything he had. He still kept trusting God through it all. "The end of the Lord" means the kind way God finished Job's story. "Pitiful" long ago meant full of pity, which is being kind to someone who hurts. Today the word means something quite different.
Every passage here is the King James text. Nothing on this page retells the story; it only puts the pieces in order.