Job 13:19

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

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

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

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?

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

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

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;