Job 1:21

He said, “When I was born, I had no clothes on. When I die, I will not take any clothes with me. Yahweh gave me everything that I possessed, and now he has taken it all away. But ◄we should/I will► always praise Yahweh anyway! [MTY]”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

In Context

20Job stood up, and tore his robe and shaved his head because he was very sad/grieved. Then he prostrated himself on the ground to worship God.

22In spite of all these things that happened to Job, he did not sin by saying that what God had done was wrong.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.”

Genesis 45:5But now, do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves for having sold me to people who brought me here, because it was to save you from dying because of the famine that God sent me here ahead of you.

1 Samuel 2:7Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.

2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps Yahweh will see that I am having all this trouble, and some day he will repay me by ◄blessing/doing good things for► me in return for this man cursing me today.”

2 Kings 20:19Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “That message from Yahweh that you have given to me is good.” He said that because he was thinking, “Even if that happens, there will be peace and security in Israel all the rest of my life.”

Job 1:11But if you take away [MTY] everything that he has, he will curse you openly. [IDM]”

Matthew Henry on Job 1:21-22

Job's Sorrow and Submission. ( b. c. 1520.) 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord . 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. The devil had done all he desired leave to do against Job, to provoke him to curse God. He had touched all he had, touched it with a witness; he… Read the whole commentary →

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