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WisdomProverbs 3:1–12
These verses give direct instruction addressed as “my son”. They connect remembering teaching, trusting Yahweh, turning from evil, honouring him with one’s substance, and receiving his correction.
WisdomTobit 4:1–19
In this Catholic additional book passage, Tobit gathers practical instruction for his son Tobias.
Catholic additional books
Wisdom1 Maccabees 14:4–49
This passage praises Simon’s leadership, reports contact with Sparta and Rome, and records a public decree.
Catholic additional books
WisdomJob 3:1–26
Job 3 records Job’s answer as a lament about his birth and his present trouble. In dark, forceful poetry, he curses the day he was born, wishes he had died, and asks why life continues in misery.
WisdomJob 4:1–21
In Job 4:1-21, Eliphaz answers Job with a firm view about suffering, innocence and God. His speech moves from Job’s past help, to a general claim about the innocent, to a fearful night message about human weakness.
WisdomJob 5:1–27
In Job 5, Eliphaz continues speaking to Job. He contrasts the fate of the foolish with his own advice to seek God, then describes God’s power, justice and correction, ending with a strong claim that his words should be accepted.
WisdomJob 6:1–30
Job answers by measuring the weight of his suffering, explaining his desperate speech, and asking his friends for kindness and honest correction rather than empty reproof.
WisdomJob 7:1–21
In Job 7:1–21, Job speaks plainly about exhausting suffering. He compares life to hard labour, describes sleepless pain, and then turns his complaint towards God with urgent questions about being watched, tested, and not pardoned.
WisdomJob 8:1–22
In Job 8:1–22, Bildad answers Job with sharp questions and firm conclusions. This is wisdom and dialogue, so the passage gives Bildad’s argument in order rather than asking us to treat his speech as a separate story.
WisdomJob 9:1–35
In Job 9, Job answers with a hard question: how can a person contend with God? This wisdom dialogue follows Job’s thoughts step by step as he speaks of God’s greatness, his own weakness, and his longing to speak without fear.
WisdomJob 10:1–22
In Job 10:1–22, Job speaks directly to God from deep weariness. He asks why God is against him, remembers that God made and preserved him, and pleads for a little relief before the darkness he expects.
WisdomJob 11:1–20
In Job 11:1–20, Zophar answers Job with a severe rebuke. He attacks Job’s words, speaks about God’s unsearchable wisdom, urges Job to remove iniquity, and ends by contrasting hoped-for safety with the end of the wicked.
WisdomJob 12:1–25
Job answers people who speak as if they have settled everything. He says their claims are not special, then points to suffering, creation and rulers to show that God’s wisdom and power reach beyond human certainty.
WisdomJob 13:1–28
In this part of Job’s speech, he stops accepting his friends’ claims as help. He wants to speak directly to God, set out his case, and ask what sin he is being charged with.
WisdomJob 14:1–22
Job 14 is a sorrowful speech about human life, suffering and death. Job speaks directly to God, using strong pictures to describe how brief people are and how uncertain hope can feel in the face of death.
WisdomJob 15:1–35
In Job 15, Eliphaz answers Job again. He claims Job’s own speech shows guilt, says Job is pushing aside reverence for God, and then describes what he believes happens to wicked people.
WisdomJob 16:1–22
Job answers his friends with sharp honesty. He says their words do not help, uses intense lament imagery to describe severe suffering, and still speaks toward God as he longs for someone to uphold his case.
WisdomJob 17:1–16
In this passage, Job speaks about suffering, shame and death with painful honesty. He feels near the grave, rejected by others and unsure where hope can be found, yet he also says something important about the righteous.
WisdomJob 18:1–21
In this speech, Bildad answers with sharp rebuke and vivid warnings. He describes what he says happens to the wicked, using repeated images of darkness, traps, fear and loss.
WisdomJob 19:1–29
In Job 19:1–29, Job answers people who have spoken harshly to him. He describes deep suffering, loneliness and blame, then states his confidence that his Redeemer lives and that there is judgment.
WisdomJob 20:1–29
Zophar replies with urgency and confidence. He says the success of the wicked is brief, and he piles up vivid pictures to argue that evil gains end in loss, exposure and judgement.
WisdomJob 21:1–34
In Job 21, Job answers people who expect the wicked to be punished in obvious ways. He asks them to listen carefully, then points to what he actually sees in life, death, and public opinion.
WisdomJob 22:1–30
Eliphaz answers Job by arguing that God does not gain from human righteousness, then accusing Job of serious wrongs and urging him to return to the Almighty.
WisdomJob 23:1–17
In this part of Job’s reply, he speaks directly about wanting to find God, present his case, and understand what God would say.
