I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is ...  Read More

God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; his archer...  Read More

He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek;...  Read More

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness aga...  Read More

I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage y...  Read More

Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?Job 16:1-3+What Comfort?Job responds t...  Read More

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.Job 15:34-35+Conceiving TroubleEliphaz en...  Read More

He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.Job 15:33+Wilted BlossomsA sick tree will not produce fruit.  Its blossoms will wither and fall.  When th...  Read More

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.Job 15:31-32+Trusting in the EmptinessTr...  Read More

Matthew 2:9-11After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When ...  Read More

Number 6:22-27The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,The Lord bless you and keep you;the Lord make his ...  Read More

Luke 2:28-32[H]e took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,“Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace,according to your word;for my eyes have seen your salvationthat you have prepa...  Read More