Job 16:7

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

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?”

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

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.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

“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.

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

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

“ ‘ “You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

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.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

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.

Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.