Job 15:11

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

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

That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

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.

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.