Job 32:20

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

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

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

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.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.