Job 11:20

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,