Job 16:4

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;