Job 23:14

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

“How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.”

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

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

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.