Job 16:8

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ”

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

“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.” ’

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?’

He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

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?

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

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

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;