Job 34:6

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

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

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.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

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

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?

For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

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.

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

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

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

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

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

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

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

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

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.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’

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!

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

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

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;