Job 15:22

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

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

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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,

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

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?”

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

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

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

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

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

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.