Job 6Job 7Job 82 Thessalonians 1Job 6
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But Job answered and said,
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
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The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
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Oh that I might have my request and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
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Even that it would please God to destroy me that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Then should I yet have comfort yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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[Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?
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[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The paths of their way are turned aside they go to nothing, and perish.
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The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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They were confounded because they had hoped they came thither, and were ashamed.
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For now ye are nothing ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.
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Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
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Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
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Now therefore be content, look upon me for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.
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Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.
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Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job 7
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[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:
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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
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[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].
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He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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Therefore I will not refrain my mouth I will speak in the anguish of my spirit I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint
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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
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I loathe [it] I would not live alway: let me alone for my days [are] vanity.
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What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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I have sinned what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].
Job 8
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?
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Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
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If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression
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If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty
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If thou [wert] pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
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For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
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(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
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Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
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Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
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Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
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So [are] the paths of all that forget God and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
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Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
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If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
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Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
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Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:
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Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
2 Thessalonians 1
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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth
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So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
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[Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
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Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you
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And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
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In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power
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When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
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Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:
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That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
