Job 15:11

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

²What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, ⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number; ¹⁰who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; ¹¹so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. ¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. ¹⁷“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole. ¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. ²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. ²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²²You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth. ²³For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you. ²⁴You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing. ²⁵You will know also that your offspring^[+] will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

⁶Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

⁸Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

¹³“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. ¹⁴If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. ¹⁵Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear, ¹⁶for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away. ¹⁷Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning. ¹⁸You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety. ¹⁹Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.

²⁴Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the LORD’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”