Jonah 4:7

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”

But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

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

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.