JOB 3:1-4: After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2He said:
3"May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, 'A boy is conceived!'
4That day--may it turn to darkness."
JOB 7:5: My body is clothed with worms and scabs,
my skin is broken and festering.
JOB 8:1-6: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2"How long will you say such things?
Your words are a blustering wind.
3Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4When your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5But if you will seek God earnestly
and plead with the Almighty,
6if you are pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself on your behalf
and restore you to your prosperous state."
JOB 14:7-10: "At least there is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not fail.
8Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stump die in the soil,
9yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant.
10But a man dies and is laid low;
he breathes his last and is no more."
"I Know That My Redeemer Lives" by Samuel Medley (1738-1799) is based on the Old Testament verse from the Book of Job, in which Job proclaims "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (Job 19:25), but it is mostly used as a hymn for Easter Sunday commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus. Medley was also inspired by Thomas the Apostle coming to believe after having seen Jesus after the Resurrection.
JOB 32:1-3: So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. 3He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
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