Job 23:14–17

³That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

⁹For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

²⁸¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

²Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

³³O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

⁸And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

³So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁹The Lord’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

¹²⁰My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

²³For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

¹⁶When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

¹⁵If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

²As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

³And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

⁵¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

¹⁶Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

¹⁶For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

¹⁵Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

²⁰And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

⁴⁶And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

¹THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

²⁰Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

²²He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

¹¹Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

⁹Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!