Job 19:21

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

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.”

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.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

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

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.” ’

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

“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.

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”