Job 19:6

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

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.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

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.

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

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.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

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 behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

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

“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

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

Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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?

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

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

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh: “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?” ’ ”

You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.” ’

But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’ ”

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

The Lord Yahweh says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.