Job 6

1 Then Job answered and said,2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed,3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?6 Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt?7 My soul refuseth to touch them;8 Oh that I might have my request;9 Even that it would please God to crush me;10 And be it still my consolation,11 What is my strength, that I should wait?12 Is my strength the strength of stones?13 Is it not that I have no help in me,14 To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend;15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,16 Which are black by reason of the ice,17 What time they wax warm, they vanish;18 The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside;19 The caravans of Tema looked,20 They were put to shame because they had hoped;21 For now ye are nothing;22 Did I say, Give unto me?23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace;25 How forcible are words of uprightness!26 Do ye think to reprove words,27 Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless,28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me;29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice;30 Is there injustice on my tongue?

Job 7

1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow,3 So am I made to possess months of misery,4 When I lie down, I say,5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,7 Oh remember that my life is a breath:8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,10 He shall return no more to his house,11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me,14 Then thou scarest me with dreams,15 So that my soul chooseth strangling,16 I loathe my life; I would not live alway:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him,18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,19 How long wilt thou not look away from me,20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?

Micah 2

1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.3 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.6 Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?8 But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.9 The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.13 The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

Hebrews 12

1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons,6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,

7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:15 looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;16 lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.18 For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:29 for our God is a consuming fire.