Job 5:12

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

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.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”