Job 21:34

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

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

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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.

They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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?

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

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

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

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

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’ ”

He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’ ”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

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

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

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

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

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.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;