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But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

…who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.

Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

These are additional proverbs of Solomon, which were copied by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

…and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.