Job 2:4

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

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.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.

“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.