Job 28:1

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

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.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

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;

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—