Job 17:15

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

“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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“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.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

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.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

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

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

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

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

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

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

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;

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

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

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

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 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.

There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,