Job 5:8
Hebrew Text— Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
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Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
“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.”
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
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.
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
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.
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
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.
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.