Job 17:11

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.