Job 36:8–9

²²¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

¹⁰Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

¹⁸He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

¹⁹He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

³²But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

²⁵For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

¹⁵This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

¹¹¶ Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

¹³And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

²¹Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

²²But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

²⁸Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

²⁹Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

³⁰Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

³¹¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

²I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

¹⁷And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

¹⁸I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

¹⁹And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

¹⁰Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: