Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 1:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
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Role in This Section
Job 1:20 opens the thought unit with the words “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and….” The prose narrator develops the next stated step through “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and…” as part of Job Mourns, Worships, and Does Not Charge God.
Read It With
- Job 1:20–1:22
Read Job 1:20 with 1:20–1:22. Read alone, “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job performs embodied mourning, blesses the LORD amid loss, and receives the narrator's verdict that he did not sin or charge God foolishly.
Why It Needs Context
Job 1:20 depends on 1:20–1:22; isolating “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The prose narrator and “Job Mourns, Worships, and Does Not Charge God.”
Read Job 1:20–22 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 1:20–1:22 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained prose scene: “Job Mourns, Worships, and Does Not Charge God.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 20. 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Verse 21. 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.
Verse 22. 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 1:20–1:22 — Job Mourns, Worships, and Does Not Charge GodSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 1:20–1:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 1:20–1:22
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗