Job 21:11
Hebrew Text— Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.
Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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.
However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’