Job 19:22

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

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

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

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

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

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

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

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

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.’ ”

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’ ” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, 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.

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

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

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

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

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

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

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

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

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

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.