Job 1:20

¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

¹⁹ when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

²¹ saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

²² In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
KJV: Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
WEB: Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
ASV: Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
DARBY: And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped;
BLB: And Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and bowed low,

ÅB: Da reiste Job seg og sønderrev sin kappe og klipte håret av sitt hode og kastet seg ned på jorden og tilba
OTB: Da reiste Job seg, rev i stykker kappen sin og barberte hodet. Så falt han til jorden og tilba.
B1930: Da reiste Job sig og sønderrev sin kappe og klipte håret av sitt hode og kastet sig ned på jorden og tilbad

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
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2 Samuel 12:16–20
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
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Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
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Ezra 9:3
When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
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Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,
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Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
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Matthew 26:39
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
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2 Chronicles 7:3
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
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