Job 1:18

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Let brotherly love continue.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.

But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,