Job 10:17

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

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?”

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces.

“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.

Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says Yahweh; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.