Job 9:23

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

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.

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

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

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

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

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.

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.

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.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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

Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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.”

Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

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

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

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.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

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.”

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

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

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

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

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.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”