Job 38:17

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

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

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

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.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”