Job 25:6

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”