Job 16:5

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

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.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

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

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.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.

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 he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

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

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

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

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

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

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.