Job 2:11

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

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.”

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

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

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

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

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

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.

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

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

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?”

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

Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

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

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

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.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’ ”

Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

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

but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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,

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

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

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

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

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

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.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

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

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

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,

Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.

Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

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

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

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?

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

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