Job 17:2

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.” ’

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.