Job 29:18

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

So Job died, being old and full of days.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.

For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.

The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

for my eyes have seen your salvation,

All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ”

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;