Job 9:17

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

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

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked.

Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.

I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

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 the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’