Job 7:4

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

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

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’ ”

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

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

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

A day to build your walls— In that day, he will extend your boundary.

Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

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

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.