Job 31:29

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?

Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.

“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?