Job 7:11

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

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.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.