Day 156: Job 39-42
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 156, is Job 39-42: Job reacts to God with (seeming?) repentance, and the Lord restores his fortunes.
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Book of Job
Day 155: Job 35-38
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 155, is Job 35-38: Elihu goes on and on but, in Chapter 38, God (finally) shows up and questions Job directly.
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Day 154: Job 31-34
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 154, is Job 31-34: A new “friend” shows up—Elihu—but the song remains the same.
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Day 153: Job 25-30
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 153, is Job 25-30: Job defends himself against Bildad, maintains his innocence, and expresses a desire to return to the former days of wine and roses.
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Day 152: Job 21-24
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 152, is Job 21-24: Job defends himself against Zophar, attacking the assumption that the wicked are always punished for their sins in this life.
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Day 151: Job 17-20
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 151, is Job 17-20: Job defends himself against Eliphaz and Bildad, and expresses the hope that “My Redeemer lives.”
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Day 150: Job 13-16
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 150, is Job 13-16: Job continues to defend himself against Zophar and longs for a mediator between himself and God.
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Day 149: Job 9-12
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 149, is Job 9-12: Job defends himself against Blidad’s denunciations, in his second response.
Job and his Comforters by Luca Giordano (c. 1700)
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Day 148: Job 5-8
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 148, is Job 5-8: Job defends himself against Eliphaz’s denunciations, in Job’s first response.
Job and his friends by Ilya Repin (1869)
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Day 147: Job 1-4
The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 147, is Job 1-4: A story in the genre of Wisdom literature, Job is about a righteous man who suffers, and his dialogues with four friends, and God. Author and date of composition are unknown.
Job, by Léon Bonnat (1880)
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