Job 1:21
King James Version
28 Jul 2026
“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.”
נָתַן
Everything Job had — his children, wealth, and health — was a gift from God who placed it in his hands to steward, not to own.
עָרוֹם
naked
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עָרוֹם
With nothing in hand and nothing to my name — just as I arrived in this world, I'll leave it the same way.
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יָצָא
I came out
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יָצָא
Job is saying he arrived into this world with nothing — he was brought out, delivered into life as a gift — and he will leave the same way.
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שׁוּב
I will return
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שׁוּב
Job saw death not as an ending but as a returning — going back to where he came from, empty-handed but still held by the same God who first gave him breath.
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שָׁם
there/ towards
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שָׁם
Job uses "there" to point toward death as a destination — the same unknown place he came from before birth, suggesting life is a journey between two mysteries.
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לָקַח
he has taken
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לָקַח
God, who gave Job everything he had, has now personally reclaimed it all — as if calling back what was always His to begin with.
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הָיָה
may it be
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הָיָה
Even in his darkest moment of loss, Job's blessing wasn't a wish thrown into the void — it was a declaration anchored in the God who simply *is*, present and unchanging in the middle of everything falling apart.
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שֵׁם
the name of
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שֵׁם
Even after losing everything, Job worships God's full character and reputation — not just a title, but who God truly is at his core.
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בָרַךְ
blessed
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בָרַךְ
Even after losing everything, Job still honored and praised God as the one who remains worthy of reverence — not because life was easy, but because God himself is the source of all good things.
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