Job 16:14

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”

Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

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,

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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

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

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

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

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.