Job 1:21

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.