Job 15 - 16, Luke 4, Psalm 34 — Legacy Standard Bible

Eliphaz Says Job’s Lips Answer Against Him

15Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

²“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge^aAnd fill his belly with the east wind?³“Should he argue with a word that cannot be used,Or with speech which is not profitable?⁴“Indeed, you annul reverent fearAnd cut off musing before God.⁵“For ^ayour iniquity teaches your mouth,And you choose the tongue of ^bthe crafty.⁶“Your ^aown mouth condemns you, and not I;And your own lips answer against you.⁷“Were you the first man to be born,Or ^awere you brought forth before the hills?⁸“Do you hear the ^asecret counsel of God,And cut down wisdom only unto yourself?⁹“^aWhat do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that is not with us?¹⁰“Both the ^agray-haired and the aged are among us,Older than your father.¹¹“Are ^athe consolations of God too small for you,Even the ^bword spoken gently with you?¹²“Why does your ^aheart take you away?And why do your eyes flash,¹³That you should turn your spirit against GodAnd allow such words to go out of your mouth?¹⁴“What is man, that ^ahe should be pure,Or ^bhe who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?¹⁵“Behold, He puts no faith in His ^aholy ones,And the ^bheavens are not pure in His sight;¹⁶How much less one who is ^aabominable and corrupt,Man, who ^bdrinks ¹unrighteousness like water!¹⁷“I will tell you, listen to me;And what I have beheld I will also recount;¹⁸What wise men have told,And have not concealed from ^atheir fathers,¹⁹To whom alone the land was given,And no stranger passed among them.²⁰“The wicked man writhes ^ain pain all his days,And ¹numbered are the years ^bstored up for the ruthless.²¹“¹Sounds of ^adread are in his ears;^bWhile at peace the destroyer comes upon him.²²“He does not believe that he will ^areturn from darkness,And he is destined for ^bthe sword.²³“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’He knows that a day of ^adarkness is ready at his hand.²⁴“Distress and anguish terrify him;They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against GodAnd ^amagnifies himself against ¹the Almighty.²⁶“He rushes ¹headlong at HimWith ²his massive shield.²⁷“For he has ^acovered his face with his fatAnd made his thighs heavy with flesh.²⁸“He has ^adwelt in desolate cities,In houses no one would inhabit,Which are destined to become ¹ruins.²⁹“He ^awill not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;And his grain will not stretch out over the land.³⁰“He will ^anot be able to ¹depart from darkness;The ^bflame will wither his shoots,And by ^cthe breath of His mouth he will depart.³¹“Let him not ^abelieve in emptiness, deceiving himself;For emptiness will be his ¹reward,³²When ^ahis days are not yet fulfilled,And his palm ^bbranch is not green.³³“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,And will ^acast off his flower like the olive tree.³⁴“For the company of ^athe godless is barren,And fire consumes ^bthe tents of ¹the corrupt.³⁵“They ^aconceive ¹trouble and give birth to wickedness,And their ²belly prepares deception.”

Troublesome Comforters

16Then Job answered and said,

²“I have heard many such things;¹^,^aTroublesome comforters are you all.³“Is there no end to ^awindy words?Or what pains you that you answer?⁴“I too could speak like you,If your soul were in the place of my soul.I could compose words against youAnd ^ashake my head at you.⁵“I could encourage you with my mouth,And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.⁶“If I speak, ^amy pain is not lessened,And if I cease, what will go forth from me?⁷“But now He has ^aexhausted me;You have made ^bdesolate all my company.⁸“You have shriveled me up,^aIt has become a witness;And my ^bleanness rises up against me,It answers to my face.⁹“His anger has ^atorn me and ¹hunted me down;He has ^bgnashed at me with His teeth;My ^cadversary sharpens his eyes to look at me.¹⁰“They have ^aopened their mouth wide at me;They have ^bstruck me on the cheek in reproach;They have ^cmassed themselves against me.¹¹“God hands me over to ruffiansAnd tosses me into the hands of the wicked.¹²“I was at ease, but ^aHe shattered me,And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His ^btarget.¹³“His ^aarrows surround me.Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;He pours out ^bmy gall on the ground.¹⁴“He ^abreaks through me with breach after breach;He ^bruns at me like a warrior.¹⁵“I have sewed ^asackcloth over my skinAnd ^bthrust my horn in the dust.¹⁶“My face is flushed from ^aweeping,^bAnd the shadow of death is on my eyelids,¹⁷Why?—because there is no ^aviolence in my hands,And ^bmy prayer is pure.¹⁸“O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no resting place for my cry.¹⁹“Even now, behold, ^amy witness is in heaven,And my ¹advocate is ^bon high.²⁰“My friends are my scoffers;^aMy eye ¹weeps to God.²¹“O that a man might argue with GodAs a son of man with his neighbor!²²“For when a few years are past,I shall go the way ^aof no return.

The Temptation of Jesus

4^aNow Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, ^breturned from the Jordan and was being led around ¹by the Spirit in the wilderness ²for ^aforty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had finished, He was hungry. ³And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” ⁴And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘^aMan shall not live on bread alone.’”

⁵^aAnd he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of ¹^,^bthe world in a moment of time. ⁶And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this ¹^,^adominion and ²its glory, ^bfor it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. ⁷“Therefore if You ¹worship before me, it shall all be Yours.” ⁸And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is written, ‘^aYou shall worship the ¹Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

⁹^aAnd he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here, ¹⁰for it is written, ‘^aHe will command His angels concerning You to guard You,’

¹¹and, ‘^aOn their hands they will bear You up,Lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’”

¹²And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘^aYou shall not put the ¹Lord your God to the test.’”

¹³And when the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

¹⁴And ^aJesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and ^bnews about Him spread through all the surrounding district. ¹⁵And He was ^ateaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁶And He came to ^aNazareth, where He had been brought up, and as was His custom, ^bHe entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and ^cstood up to read. ¹⁷And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the scroll and found the place where it was written,

¹⁸“^aThe Spirit of the ¹Lord is upon Me,Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,And recovery of sight to the blind,To set free those who are oppressed,¹⁹^aTo proclaim the favorable year of the ¹Lord.”

²⁰And He ^aclosed the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and ^bsat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. ²¹And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ¹hearing.” ²²And all were ¹speaking well of Him and marveling at the ²gracious words which were coming forth from His lips, and they were saying, “^aIs this not Joseph’s son?” ²³And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard took place ^aat Capernaum, do also here in ^byour hometown.’” ²⁴And He said, “Truly I say to you, ^ano prophet is welcome in his hometown. ²⁵“But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel ^ain the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land, ²⁶and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but ^aonly to ¹Zarephath, in the land of ^bSidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷“And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, but ^aonly Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things, ²⁹and they stood up and ^adrove Him out of the city, and led Him to the edge of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. ³⁰But ^apassing through their midst, He went on His way.

Jesus Casts Out an Unclean Demon

³¹And ^aHe came down to ^bCapernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath; ³²and ^athey were amazed at His teaching, for ^bHis ¹message was with authority. ³³And in the synagogue there was a man ¹possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ³⁴“¹Let us alone! ²^,^aWhat do we have to do with You, Jesus the ^bNazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—^cthe Holy One of God!” ³⁵But Jesus ^arebuked it, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, it came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶And amazement came upon them all, and they were talking with one another saying, “What is ¹this message? For ^awith authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out.” ³⁷And ^athe report about Him was spreading into every place in the surrounding district.

Peter’s Mother-in-Law and Many Others Healed

³⁸^aThen He stood up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ^bsuffering from a high fever, and they asked Him ¹to help her. ³⁹And standing over her, He ^arebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she stood up and ¹began waiting on them.

⁴⁰^aAnd while ^bthe sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him, and ^claying His hands on each one of them, He was ^dhealing them. ⁴¹And demons also were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are ^athe Son of God!” But ^brebuking them, He was ^cnot allowing them to speak, because they knew Him to be the ¹Christ.

⁴²^aWhen day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were eagerly seeking for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them. ⁴³But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, ^afor I was sent for this purpose.”

⁴⁴So He kept on preaching in the synagogues ^aof ¹Judea.

Taste and See That Yahweh Is Good

א Aleph

Of David. When he feigned madness before ¹Abimelech, so that he drove him away and he departed.

I will ^abless Yahweh at all times;His ^bpraise shall continually be in my mouth.

ב Beth

²My soul will ^amake its boast in Yahweh;The ^bhumble will hear it and rejoice.

ג Gimel

³O ^amagnify Yahweh with me,And let us ^bexalt His name together.

ד Daleth

⁴I ^ainquired of Yahweh, and He answered me,And ^bdelivered me from all that I dread.

ה He / ו Vav

⁵They ^alooked to Him and were radiant,And their faces will ^bnever be humiliated.

ז Zayin

⁶This ¹poor man called out, and ^aYahweh heard himAnd saved him out of all his troubles.

ח Heth

⁷The ^aangel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear Him,And rescues them.

ט Teth

⁸O ^ataste and see that Yahweh is good;How ^bblessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

י Yodh

⁹Oh, fear Yahweh, you ^aHis saints;For there is ^bno want to those who fear Him.

כ Kaph

¹⁰The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;But they who inquire of Yahweh shall ^anot be in want of any good thing.

ל Lamedh

¹¹^aCome, you children, listen to me;^bI will teach you ^cthe fear of Yahweh.

מ Mem

¹²^aWho is the man who delights in lifeAnd loves many days that he may ^bsee good?

נ Nun

¹³Guard ^ayour tongue from evilAnd your lips from speaking ^bdeceit.

ס Samekh

¹⁴^aDepart from evil and do good;Seek peace and ^bpursue it.

ע Ayin

¹⁵The ^aeyes of Yahweh are toward the righteousAnd His ears are open to their cry for help.

פ Pe

¹⁶The ^aface of Yahweh is against evildoers,To ^bcut off the memory of them from the earth.

צ Tsadhe

¹⁷The righteous ^acry, and Yahweh hearsAnd delivers them out of all their troubles.

ק Qoph

¹⁸Yahweh ^ais near to the ^bbrokenheartedAnd saves those who are ¹^,^ccrushed in spirit.

ר Resh

¹⁹^aMany are the ^bevils against the righteous,But Yahweh ^cdelivers him out of them all.

שׁ Shin

²⁰He keeps all his bones,^aNot one of them is broken.

ת Tav

²¹^aEvil shall slay the wicked,And those who hate the righteous will be ¹condemned.²²Yahweh ^aredeems the soul of His slaves,And all those who ^btake refuge in Him will not be ¹condemned.