Job 30:15

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

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

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

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.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

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.

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.

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

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.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

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

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

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.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

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.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

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:

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

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

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

“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.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.