Workers For Jesus Online Bible Study Table of Contents

About this Bible Study........The King James Version of the Bible is written in a beautiful form of the English language. It can be hard for modern English readers to understand.  In this study, you will find notes and summaries in brown just above the the verses from the Bible. We recommend that you read the notes and summaries first, and then read the verses in their KJV form. 


Timeline of the Bible

God creates the world. --- God destroys the world with the flood, but saves  Noah and his family.---
This book of the Bible happens during this time God chooses Abraham and his descendants to His people. ---Abraham's grandson, Jacob, has 12 sons who lead the 12 tribes of Israel.--- The Israelites become slaves in Egypt.--- God helps the Israelites escape and leads them to Canaan. ---The Israelites fight in wars and take control of Canaan.---Judges lead the Israelites, but the Israelites want to have kings instead of judges. --- David is Israel's greatest king.--- Israel divides into 2 parts: Israel and Judah.--- The people of Israel and Judah continue to sin and worship false gods.--- God allows the Assyrians and the Babylonians to take the Israelites out of Israel and Judah.--- The Israelites (Jews) live in Babylonia and then Persia. --- When Persia defeats the Babylonians, the Jews go back to Judah.--- The Jews build God's Temple in Jerusalem again.--- Greece defeats Persia, and the Greeks control Judah (also now called Israel).--- The Jews become independent for 100 years.-- The Romans take control of Israel.--- Jesus is born. At age 30, Jesus begins his ministry. ---Jesus is crucified and then is resurrected. --- A Roman named Saul is converted to Christianity and becomes Paul.--- Christianity spreads. --- Paul write letters to Christians in other places. In the year, 70 A.D., God's Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed again.

 

The Book of  Job

Job was a very good man. He was very rich and had a big family. God allowed Satan to test Job. Satan took away Job's possessions and most of his family. Job couldn't understand why this happened to him. He asks why God would let these things happen. Three of Job's friends came to try and help him understand. Later, another young man comes to help him. At the end, God talks to Job from a whirlwind.
 


Job 19 - 24
Bildad and Eliphaz talk to Job, and Job replies to them.
Job talks about how he feels alone.
Job tells his friends that they are wrong.
Eliphaz tells Job to start obeying God again.
 


 

Job 19


Job replies to Bildad for the second time.


Job asks Bildad how long he and the other friends will continue to say bad things to him.  Their words are breaking him.

[1] Then Job answered and said,
[2] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?


He says they have accused him 10 times.  He says they don't care that they have accused him many times.
[3] These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.


He says that if he did sin, he only hurt himself.
[4] And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.


They think they are good and that he is bad. But Job says that God has defeated him.
[5] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
[6] Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.



Job complains to God.


Job says that he cries out, but God does not hear him.

[7] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.


He says that God has put up fences so that he cannot walk. He says God made the path dark.

[8] He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.


Job says that God has taken away his glory and taken the crown off his head.

[9] He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.


He says that God has destroyed him on every side. He said he has no hope.

[10] He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.


He says that God is mad at him. He says that God sees him as an enemy.

[11] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.


He says that God's army comes and fights against him.

[12] His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.


 

Job and his three friends.
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Job talks about how he feels alone.


Job says that God has moved his family far away from him. His friends do not come visit him.
[13] He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.


His family has failed him and his best friends have forgotten him.

[14] My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.


Job talks about the workers who live in his house. They treat him like a stranger. He calls them but they do not answer.

[15] They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
[16] I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.


His breath smells bad to his wife. Children make fun of his body and talk badly about him.

[17] My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
[18] Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.


His friends hate him. The people he loved are against him now.

[19] All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.


He is skinny, and his bones show. He is almost dead.

[20] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.


He asks his friends to pity him. He says God has made bad things happen to him. He asks why his friends treat him badly like God does.
[21] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
[22] Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
 


Job says that he still believes in God.



He wishes that his words could be written, and people could read them forever.
[23] Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
[24] That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!


He knows that God lives. God will redeem him (make things good for him). God will stand on the earth in later days.
[25] For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:


After he dies, his body will decay. But he knows he will stand in a new body and see God.

[26] And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
[27] Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
 

Job says that his friends should ask themselves why they talk badly to him. They say Job sinned and caused his troubles.
[28] But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?


He says they should be afraid because God will punish them.
[29] Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
 



Job 20


Job's friend, Zophar, talks again.


Zophar answered. He said he has heard what Job said. He feels he must answer quickly.
[1] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
[2] Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
[3] I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.



Zophar talks about people who sin.


Zophar says that people who sin are happy for a short time. People who are hypocrites feel joy for a short time. This has been happening since God put man on the earth.

[4] Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
[5] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?


A sinful man is proud and conceited.  But he will die forever like dirt. People who saw him will ask where he went.

[6] Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
[7] Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?


A sinful man will fly away like a dream. No one will find him.
[8] He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.


People that saw him will not see him anymore. He will not be able to go to his home.

[9] The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.


A sinful man's children will pay for his sins.

[10] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.


He sinned when he was young. His sins will stay with him until he dies.

[11] His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.


He tries to hide his sins. He does not tell about his sins. The sins taste sweet in his mouth.  But his sins will make him sick inside.

[12] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
[13] Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
[14] Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.


He will be rich and swallow his riches. But God will make him vomit out the riches.

[15] He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.


Snakes will kill the sinful man.
[16] He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.


The sinful man will not see rivers, floods, or rivers made of honey and butter.

[17] He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.


The sinful man took homes away from poor people. He will not be happy and must pay them for their homes.

[18] That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
[19] Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;


The sinful man will not feel peace inside.

[20] Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.


He will not have anything left.  Wicked people will attack him.

[21] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
[22] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.


When he is ready to eat, God will rain down on him with his anger.

[23] When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.


He will try to run away from God's iron weapon, but the steel sword will go through him.

[24] He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
[25] It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.


God's fire will burn him and his valuable things.

[26] All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.


Heaven will show his sins. The earth will be against him.

[27] The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.


He will lose the things he owns.

[28] The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.


This is what God will do to a sinful man.

[29] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
 



Job 21


Job answers Zophar.


Job asks him to listen to him. After he speaks, they can start mocking him again.

[1] But Job answered and said,
[2] Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
[3] Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
 

Job says that he isn't complaining to men. If he was only complaining to men, he would not be so worried.
[4] As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?


He tells him to look at him. He will be shocked at how he looks. He will put his hand on his mouth.  When Job remembers how he looks, he feels afraid, too.

[5] Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
[6] Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

 

Job talks about wicked, bad people. Some of them have good things happen to them.
 

Job asks why some wicked, bad people do not die. They live long lives. They have a lot of power.
[7] Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?


They live long enough to see their children and grandchildren.

[8] Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


Their houses are safe, and they are not afraid. God does not punish them.

[9] Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.


Their cows have calves.

[10] Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.


Their children dance and play music.

[11] They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
[12] They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.


They have a lot of money during their lives. They do not suffer long before they die.

[13] They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.


They don't feel they need God. They don't want to serve him. They don't want to know more about Him. They don't feel they need to pray to God.

[14] Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
[15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?


Job wants to be far away from wicked, bad people.

[16] Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 

Job asks how often God destroys wicked people. God sends out sad things when He is angry.  Wicked people are destroyed and carried away.
[17] How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
[18] They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.


Job's friends said that God punishes the sinner's children. But Job feels that God should punish the sinner now. Then the sinner will know why God sent His punishment.

[19] God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
[20] His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
[21] For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?


People are too low. They cannot teach God anything or give Him more knowledge. God is higher than even the most important people.
[22] Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.


Some men die when they are still strong and peaceful. Other men are sick and bitter before they die. Both men are buried in the dirt after they die.

[23] One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
[24] His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
[25] And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
[26] They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.



Job tells his friends that they are wrong.


Job says that he knows his friends are wrong.  They keep asking him questions, but they don't know the answers.
[27] Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
[28] For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
[29] Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,


Sinful, bad people will die and be punished.

[30] That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
[31] Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
[32] Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
[33] The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.


Job says that his friends do not comfort him. They keep saying things that are wrong.
[34] How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
 



Job 22


Job's friend, Eliphaz, talks again.


Eliphaz says that God does not need people.  Even people who do not sin cannot be valuable to God.

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
[2] Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
[3] Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?


Eliphaz asks if God would punish Job because He respected Job. He asks if God will ask Job's advice about his punishment.
[4] Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?


Eliphaz says that Job has many sins. Eliphaz tells Job how he has sinned.

[5] Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?


Someone owed Job money but they couldn't afford to pay him back. Eliphaz said that Job took took their clothes as payment.

[6] For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.


Eliphaz says that Job was rich, but he did not give water to thirsty people. He said he did not feed people who were hungry.

[7] Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
[8] But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.


He says that Job did not help widows or orphans.

[9] Thou has sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.


Eliphaz says that's why Job is having trouble now.
[10] Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
[11] Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.



Eliphaz says that Job thinks God can't see his sins.
 

Eliphaz says that God is up high in heaven. The stars are high, too.
[12] Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!


He says that Job feels that God can't see his sins. Job feels that God can't see through the dark clouds.
[13] And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
[14] Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.


Eliphaz says that Job should remember that God punishes sinful people.


Job should remember how bad, sinful men were destroyed in the past.
[15] Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
[16] Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:


Those sinful men in the past said they didn't need God. But God gave them good things anyway. Eliphaz doesn't agree with these sinful men.
[17] Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
[18] Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.


People who did not sin see the sinful people. They are happy when the sinful people are punished for their sins.

[19] The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
[20] Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.



Eliphaz tells Job to start obeying God again.


Eliphaz says that Job should follow God again. He will be at peace and good things will happen to him again.

[21] Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.


Job should follow God's laws again.

[22] Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.


If Job returns to God, his life will be good again.
[23] If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.


He will be rich again. God will protect him. He will have much gold and silver.

[24] Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
[25] Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.


Job will be happy and love God. He will pray to God. God will hear Job's prayers. Job will keep his promises to God.

[26] For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
[27] Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.


God will answer Job's prayers. God's light will shine on his life.

[28] Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.


Job will pray for other people. God will help them because Job prayed for them.

[29] When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
[30] He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
 



Job 23


Job replies to Eliphaz.


Job wants to discuss his troubles with God.
 

Job answered. He said that he is suffering. He wants to find God and talk to Him.
[1] Then Job answered and said,
[2] Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
[3] Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!


Job would discuss his problems with God.  He says that God would help him be strong again.
[4] I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
[5] I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
[6] Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
[7] There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.


He has looked for God, but he cannot find Him.
[8] Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
[9] On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:


Job says that God will see that he is a good man.  He has always tried to follow God and obey His laws.
[10] But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
[11] My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
[12] Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.


Job says that God is powerful. No one can go against him.

[13] But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
[14] For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
 

Job is afraid of God.
[15] Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
[16] For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
[17] Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
 



Job 24
 

Job talks about people who sin.


Job asks why people who know God continue to sin.
[1] Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?


Job lists some of the things that sinful people do. They take down the fences that show property lines. They steal flocks of animals and the animals' food.
[2] Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.


They chase away the donkeys that belong to orphans. They take widows' oxen if they owe them money.
[3] They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.


They make poor people leave. The poor people hide in the desert like wild donkeys. The poor people have to find food in the wilderness.
[4] They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
[5] Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.


The sinful people steal corn and grapes from other peoples' farms.

[6] They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.


They take clothes and shelter away from poor people. In the winter, the poor people have no warm clothes or place to stay.
[7] They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
[8] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.


They take away children with no fathers, even if they are babies. They take them if the mother is poor and owes money.
[9] They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.


They take clothes and food from their poor and hungry workers. Job says that the poor people and people who have pain cry out loud. He says that God does not help them.
[10] They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
[11] Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
[12] Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Sinners are people who prefer the darkness. They are people who kill, people who steal, and people who commit adultery.
[13] They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
[14] The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
[15] The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.


During the day, the thief looks for houses to rob. Then at night, he robs and steals from them.

[16] In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
 

People who sin do not like the light of morning. They are afraid of it.
[17] For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.



Job says that sinners will be punished.
 

The sinful man is cursed. He will die. He will be like water in the snow that becomes hot and evaporates when there is a drought.
[18] He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
[19] Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.


A sinful man will not be remembered. He will be broken like a tree that breaks.
[20] The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.


The sinful man is not good to widows or women who have no children.
[21] He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.


God sees what the sinful people do.  On earth, they seem powerful and mighty. They are powerful and mighty for a while. But God will punish them and cut them down. They will be cut down like the tops of corn stalks are cut off.
[22] He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
[23] Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
[24] They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.


Job says he tells the truth. He is not a liar.

[25] And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
 

 

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