Job 42:11

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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.”

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’ ”

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

“Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”

Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.