Job 3:25
Hebrew Text— Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?
What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
“For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.