11 Are God’s consolations(A) not enough for you,
    words(B) spoken gently to you?(C)

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11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

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But God, who comforts the downcast,(A) comforted us by the coming of Titus,(B)

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Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

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Praise to the God of All Comfort

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,(A) the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us(B) in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,(C) so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

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16 “He is wooing(A) you from the jaws of distress
    to a spacious place(B) free from restriction,(C)
    to the comfort of your table(D) laden with choice food.(E)

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16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

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Do you listen in on God’s council?(A)
    Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?(B)

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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

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What you know, I also know;
    I am not inferior to you.(A)

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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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13 “Yet if you devote your heart(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands(B) to him,(C)
14 if you put away(D) the sin that is in your hand
    and allow no evil(E) to dwell in your tent,(F)
15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;(G)
    you will stand firm(H) and without fear.(I)
16 You will surely forget your trouble,(J)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.(K)
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,(L)
    and darkness will become like morning.(M)
18 You will be secure, because there is hope;
    you will look about you and take your rest(N) in safety.(O)
19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,(P)
    and many will court your favor.(Q)

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13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

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“But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
    I would lay my cause before him.(A)
He performs wonders(B) that cannot be fathomed,(C)
    miracles that cannot be counted.(D)
10 He provides rain for the earth;(E)
    he sends water on the countryside.(F)
11 The lowly he sets on high,(G)
    and those who mourn(H) are lifted(I) to safety.
12 He thwarts the plans(J) of the crafty,
    so that their hands achieve no success.(K)
13 He catches the wise(L) in their craftiness,(M)
    and the schemes of the wily are swept away.(N)
14 Darkness(O) comes upon them in the daytime;
    at noon they grope as in the night.(P)
15 He saves the needy(Q) from the sword in their mouth;
    he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.(R)
16 So the poor(S) have hope,
    and injustice shuts its mouth.(T)

17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;(U)
    so do not despise the discipline(V) of the Almighty.[a](W)
18 For he wounds, but he also binds up;(X)
    he injures, but his hands also heal.(Y)
19 From six calamities he will rescue(Z) you;
    in seven no harm will touch you.(AA)
20 In famine(AB) he will deliver you from death,
    and in battle from the stroke of the sword.(AC)
21 You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,(AD)
    and need not fear(AE) when destruction comes.(AF)
22 You will laugh(AG) at destruction and famine,(AH)
    and need not fear the wild animals.(AI)
23 For you will have a covenant(AJ) with the stones(AK) of the field,
    and the wild animals will be at peace with you.(AL)
24 You will know that your tent is secure;(AM)
    you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.(AN)
25 You will know that your children will be many,(AO)
    and your descendants like the grass of the earth.(AP)
26 You will come to the grave in full vigor,(AQ)
    like sheaves gathered in season.(AR)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:17 Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Job

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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24 Then Zedekiah(A) son of Kenaanah went up and slapped(B) Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from[a] the Lord go when he went from me to speak(C) to you?” he asked.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:24 Or Spirit of

24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?

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