THE COPTIC ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN USA

JOB

Beginner Level

Chapter 1

  1. Seven
  2. d) all of those

Chapter 2

  1. Curse God
  2. Eliphaz , Bildad, Zophar

Chapter 3

  1. a) The day he was born
  2. c) Job

Chapter 4

  1. Eliphaz
  2. b) lack of prey

Chapter 5

  1. Foolish, envy
  2. Happy, Almighty.

Chapter 6

  1. Salt; white
  2. kindness; friend, Even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Chapter 7

  1. b) his wages
  2. c) dreams and visions

Chapter 8

  1. b) Bildad
  2. Blameless; evildoers

Chapter 9

  1. Wise; strength
  2. c) his Judge

Chapter 10

  1. a) skin and flesh
  2. c) fierce lion

Chapter 11

  1. Zophar
  2. Noonday; dark

Chapter 12

  1. c) his friends
  2. Wisdom; understanding

Chapter 13

  1. b) physicians
  2. secretly

Chapter 14

  1. Answer; desire
  2. Bag; cover

Chapter 15

  1. Fear; prayer
  2. Grape; blossom

Chapter 16

  1. c) miserable comforters
  2. a) pure

Chapter 17

  1. Friends; children
  2. Hands; stronger

Chapter 18

  1. Light; fire
  2. b) the earth

Chapter 19

  1. c) ten
  2. b) reproached him

Chapter 20

  1. Short; joy
  2. c) a dream

Chapter 21

  1. b) wealth
  2. Knowledge; high

Chapter 22

  1. Almighty; tents
  2. Prayer; vows

Chapter 23

  1. b) gold
  2. c) weak

Chapter 24

  1. b) ox
  2. a) the light

Chapter 25

  1. Fear; peace

Chapter 26

  1. Empty; earth
  2. Spirit; hand; serpent

Chapter 27

  1. c) wickedness
  2. a) the hand of God

Chapter 28

  1. d) all of these
  2. a) wisdom

Chapter 29

  1. c) sing for joy
  2. b) rain

Chapter 30

  1. a) men younger than him
  2. Wept; soul; poor

Chapter 31

  1. Hope; confidence
  2. b) the travelers

Chapter 32

  1. false
  2. c) Job and his friends

Chapter 33

  1. c) his heart
  2. Spirit; breath; life

Chapter 34

  1. Righteous; justice
  2. Eyes; man; steps

Chapter 35

  1. c) empty talk
  2. Mouth; knowledge

Chapter 36

  1. a) the oppressed
  2. God; years

Chapter 37

  1. Voice; things
  2. Fear; wise; heart

Chapter 38

  1. c) whirlwind
  2. c) food

Chapter 39

  1. b) the rock
  2. a) wisdom

Chapter 40

  1. a) humble him
  2. c) stomach muscles

Chapter 41

  1. d) all of these
  2. Stone; millstone

Chapter 42

  1. c) prayed for them
  2. Seven; three

THE COPTIC ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN USA

JOB

Intermediate Level

Chapter 1

  1. Blameless and upright, one who feared God and shunned evil (1:1)
  2. Sanctify them and offer burnt offerings (1:4-5)

Chapter 2

  1. Painful boils from head to toe (2:7)
  2. - Lifted their voices and wept, tore their robes, sprinkled dust on their heads

- Sat with him speechless for seven days and nights (2:12-13)

Chapter 3

  1. - The day of his birth

- The night of his conception (1-3)

  1. Sighing

Chapter 4

  1. Eliphaz the Temanite (1)
  2. Those who plow iniquity And sow trouble (8)

Chapter 5

  1. wrath 2
  2. happy 17

Chapter 6

  1. Like a deceitful brook (14-15)
  2. His friends (14)

Chapter 7

  1. My flesh is caked with worms and dust, My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh. (5)
  2. He says God scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions (14)

Chapter 8

  1. Because they sinned against God (4)
  2. Will be clothed with shame (22)

Chapter 9

  1. Into the hand of the wicked. (24)
  2. "Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good. They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey. (25-26)

Chapter 10

  1. With skin and flesh (11)
  2. Like a fierce lion (16)

Chapter 11

  1. As waters that have passed away (6)
  2. You would be secure, because there is hope (18)

Chapter 12

  1. That they were mocking him (4)
  2. He makes nations great, and destroys them; He enlarges nations, and guides them (23)

Chapter 13

  1. As forger of lies and worthless physicians (4)
  2. For God to withdraw His hand far from him and For God not to make him afraid (20-21)

Chapter 14

  1. Is of few days and full of trouble. (1)
  2. "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease. (7)

Chapter 15

  1. The fathers of the wise men (19)
  2. To Job himself

Chapter 16

  1. God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked. 11
  2. Pure (17)

Chapter 17

  1. A byword of the people, one in whose face men spit (6)
  2. I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,' (14)

Chapter 18

  1. Wicked; flame; shine
  2. Those in the west are astonished at his day, as those in the east are frightened. (20)

Chapter 19

  1. Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. (15)
  2. Wrath brings the punishment of the sword (29)

Chapter 20

  1. Yet his food in his stomach turns sour; It becomes cobra venom within him. (14)
  2. How will heaven and earth treat the wicked? (27)

Chapter 21

  1. In wealth (13)
  2. 'Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. (14)

Chapter 22

  1. He had send them away empty (9)
  2. Good will come to him. (21)

Chapter 23

  1. I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. (4)
  2. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. (12)

Chapter 24

  1. They take the widow's ox as a pledge. (3)
  2. They should be punished and remembered no more (18-24)

Chapter 25

  1. To God (2)

Chapter 26

  1. V 7
  2. By His Spirit (13)

Chapter 27

  1. My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.(5)
  2. About the hand of God 11

Chapter 28

  1. For the price of wisdom is above rubies, the topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, Nor can it be valued in pure gold. (18-19)
  2. The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.'" (28)

Chapter 29

  1. The princes refrained from talking, And put their hand on their mouth ( 9)
  2. I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 13

Chapter 30

  1. Young men whose fathers Job had disdained to put even with the dogs of his flock (30:1)
  2. To God (20)

Chapter 31

  1. You are my comfidence (24)
  2. To the traveler (32)

Chapter 32

  1. Because he thought Job justified himself rather than God. (2)
  2. Because they had found no answer and yet had condemned Job (3)

Chapter 33

  1. From his upright heart (3)
  2. Wisdom (33)

Chapter 34

  1. God (21)
  2. Because they turned back from Him, and would not consider any of His ways (27)

Chapter 35

  1. Because of their pride (12)
  2. To empty talk (13)

Chapter 36

  1. The righteous (7)
  2. They shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. (11)

Chapter 37

  1. Ice (10)
  2. Golden splendor (22)

Chapter 38

  1. Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. (3)
  2. For food (41)

Chapter 39

  1. Goats; deer; donkey; wild ox; ostrich; horse
  2. Wisdom (17)

Chapter 40

  1. Humble him and bring him to low (11-12)
  2. Grass (15)

Chapter 41

  1. Burning lights, sparks of fire and flame (19-21)
  2. As hard as a stone even as hard as the lower millstone (24)

Chapter 42

  1. Because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has." (8)
  2. In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job (15)

THE COPTIC ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN USA

JOB

Advanced Level

Chapter 1

  1. Destroy what Job has, and he will curse God to His face (1:11)
  2. Tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground and worshipped God. “Naked came I from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.”(1:20-21)

Chapter 2

  1. Touch his bone and flesh, and Job will curse God to His face (2:5)
  2. Whatever he wanted, up to the point of killing Job (2:6)

Chapter 3

  1. The day of his birth; The night of his conception (1-3)
  2. Then he would be at rest, just like those who had been great in their lifetime (11-15)

Chapter 4

  1. Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees; (3-4)
  2. (17-21)

Chapter 5

  1. For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.(3)
  2. Despise the chastening of the Almighty (17)

Chapter 6

  1. They were prompted by his troubles and heavy grief (2-3)
  2. That God would go ahead and crush him (i.e., he longed for death) (8-9)

Chapter 7

  1. You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions (14)
  2. Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, spent without hope (6)

Chapter 8

  1. He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. (5-7)
  2. Behold, God will not cast away the blameless (20-22)

Chapter 9

  1. V 2-5, 14-16
  2. "Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey. (25-26)

Chapter 10

  1. v 9-12
  2. Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, where even the light is like darkness.'" (21-22)

Chapter 11

  1. Because there is hope (18)
  2. Their eyes will fail, and they shall not escape and their hope –loss of life (20)

Chapter 12

  1. He loosens the bonds of kings, And binds their waist with a belt. He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty. (18-19) He pours contempt on princes, And disarms the mighty.(21)
  2. He makes nations great, and destroys them; He enlarges nations, and guides them. (23)

Chapter 13

  1. For God to withdraw His hand far from him - For God not to make him afraid (20-21)
  2. How many are his iniquities and sins; Why God hides His face and regards Job as an enemy (23-24)

Chapter 14

  1. Of few days and full of trouble; Like a flower that soon fades away, as a fleeting shadow that is quickly gone (1-2)
  2. There is more hope for a tree, for a tree cut down will rise again (7-12)

Chapter 15

  1. Do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us? (7-9)
  2. Abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water (16)

Chapter 16

  1. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief. (5)
  2. "I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust. My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.(15-17)

Chapter 17

  1. He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.(5)
  2. A byword of the people, one in whose face men spit (6)

Chapter 18

  1. As beasts and stupid in his sight (3)
  2. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks into a snare. The net takes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him. A noose is hidden for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the road. (8-10)

Chapter 19

  1. "He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am repulsive to the children of my own body. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.(13-18)
  2. Wrath brings the punishment of the sword (29)

Chapter 20

  1. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment? (5)
  2. Losing all, terror and darkness is the portion God has appointed for the wicked (28)

Chapter 21

  1. 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. Who is the Almighty,that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?' (14-15)
  2. How can you comfort me with empty words, since falsehood remains in your answers? (21:34)

Chapter 22

  1. What does God know? Thick clouds cover Him so that He cannot see (13-14)
  2. He will be built up, and iniquity will be far removed from him (22:23)

Chapter 23

  1. I would present my case before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which He would answer me, And understand what He would say to me. (4-7)
  2. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food. (11-12)

Chapter 24

  1. v 4-10
  2. v19-24

Chapter 25

  1. Dominion and fear belong to Him, He makes peace in His high places; His armies are innumerable (1-3)

Chapter 26

  1. "How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you? (2-4)
  2. V7-13.

Chapter 27

  1. His integrity, righteousness, and clear conscience (5-6)
  2. If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Those who survive him shall be buried in death, what fate awaits the children of the wicked? (14-15)

Chapter 28

  1. V15-19
  2. It comes from God, who has revealed it to man (20-28)

Chapter 29

  1. As in the days when God watched over me;When His lamp shone upon my head, And when by His light I walked through darkness; Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent; When the Almighty was yet with me, (1-6)
  2. Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no helper. (12)

Chapter 30

  1. I cry out to You, but You do not answer. You have become cruel to me; You oppose me with the strength of Your Hand (30:20-21)
  2. In summarizing his plight, what sort of things does he say?

- I looked for good, evil came to me; I waited for light, then came darkness

- My heart is in turmoil and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me

- I go about mourning, I cry for help

- My skin grows black and falls from me; my bones burn with fever (26-31)

Chapter 31

  1. List three things that Job says would make him deserving of God’s punishment (1-40)

- Walking with falsehood, or hastening to deceit

- Heart enticed by a woman, or lurking at his neighbor’s door

- Despising the cause of his servants when they complained against him

- Keeping the poor from their desire

- Causing the eyes of the widow to fail

- Eating morsels so that the fatherless could not eat of it

- Seeing anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the poor without covering

- Failing to help the fatherless when it was in his power

- Making gold his hope and confidence; rejoicing over his great wealth

- Worshipping the sun or moon

- Rejoicing at the destruction of him who hated him

- Not providing food and opening his doors to the traveler

- Trying to hide his transgressions

- Eating off the land without compensation, causing its owners to lose their lives

  1. Gold (24)

Chapter 32

  1. Why was Elihu angry at both Job and his three friends (2-5)

a. At Job, because he justified himself rather than God

b. At his friends, because they provided no real answer and yet condemned Job

c. He had waited to speak because of his youth, but the silence from the three men made him angry

  1. For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. Indeed my belly is like wine that has no vent; It is ready to burst like new wineskins. I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer. (18-20)

Chapter 33

  1. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction. (15-17)
  2. To bring back his soul from the Pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life. (30)

Chapter 34

  1. Yet He is not partial to princes, nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; for they are all the work of His hands. (19)
  2. He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others (26)

Chapter 35

  1. Because of their pride (12)
  2. Opened his mouth in vain, multiplying words without knowledge (16)

Chapter 36

  1. He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, and they are exalted. (7)
  2. "But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; they do not cry for help when He binds them. They die in youth, and their life ends among the perverted persons. (13-14)

Chapter 37

  1. For He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth'; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength. (6)
  2. As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him; He is excellent in power, in judgment and abundant justice; He does not oppress. Therefore men fear Him; He shows no partiality to any who are wise of heart (23-24)

Chapter 38

  1. "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone (4-6)
  2. "Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said, 'This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!' (8-11)

Chapter 39

  1. List four different things about which God asked Job in this chapter (38:8-39:30)

- The procreation of mountain goats and dear

- The freedom of the wild donkey, the strength of the wild ox

- The stupidity of the ostrich, the horse in battle

- The flight of the hawk, and nesting of the eagle

  1. v 13-18

Chapter 40

  1. Adorn himself with majesty, splendor, glory and beauty. Humble those who are proud
  2. His strength is in his hips and his power is in his stomach muscles.

Chapter 41

  1. His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted. (15-17)
  2. His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone. (24)

Chapter 42