Job 6:14

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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

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

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.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

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

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

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

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

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?

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

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

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

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

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

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

Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

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.’

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

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.’”

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

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

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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

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

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

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.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

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