185 passages · Life and end
The list continues through Methuselah and Lamech. Lamech names his son Noah, hoping for comfort from the cursed ground's toil, and Noah later has Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Noah sends out a raven and then a dove three times. The dove returns with an olive leaf and then does not return. Noah sees the ground dry and the earth fully dry by the second month.
In the thirty-seventh year of his exile, Jehoiachin is freed by Evil-merodach. He is treated kindly, given a place of honor, and provided for at the king's table for the rest of his life.
Bildad concludes that God does not reject the blameless or support evildoers. He says God will yet fill Job's mouth with laughter while the wicked are shamed.
Zophar tells Job to direct his heart to God and remove injustice, and then he will feel secure and forget his misery. The wicked, he says, will find no escape.
Job says he will speak whatever the risk and will still hope in God and defend his ways to God's face. He believes he will be vindicated.
Job compares a felled tree, which can sprout again, with a person who dies and does not rise. Death is like water disappearing from a dried river.
Job wishes God would hide him in Sheol until His anger passes and then call him back. He wonders whether a dead man will live again and imagines God covering his sin.
Job says God erodes human hope as water wears away stone. The dead are unaware of their family and feel only their own pain.
Job challenges his friends to try again but says he will find no wise person among them. He describes the grave as his home and asks where his hope lies.
Job wishes his words were carved in stone forever and states his confidence that his Redeemer lives and that he will see God for himself. He warns his friends to fear judgment.
Job wishes his enemies to be like the wicked and asks what hope the godless have when God takes their life. He says he will teach them about God's power and asks why they are still speaking emptily.
The mood changes as the psalmist tells his enemies to leave, because the LORD has heard his cry. He is confident that his enemies will be ashamed and turn back.
He asks God to confront the wicked and rescue him from people who live only for this life. He ends by saying he will see God's face and be satisfied when he wakes.
Even walking through the darkest valley, he will fear no evil because God is with him. The shepherd's rod and staff comfort him.
He asks God to teach him and protect him from false witnesses. He says he is sure to see God's goodness and encourages himself and others to wait patiently for the LORD.
He praises God's goodness stored for those who fear Him, who hides them from human schemes. He blesses the LORD for help in a besieged city and urges all the faithful to love the LORD and be strong.
The people say they wait for the LORD, their help and shield. They rejoice in Him and ask that His loving devotion rest on them.
The reader is told to wait patiently, avoid anger, and not fret, because evildoers will be cut off. The meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace.
He recalls seeing a powerful wicked man flourish and then disappear. He concludes that the blameless have a future while the wicked will be destroyed, and the LORD rescues those who take refuge in Him.
He waits for God to answer and asks that his enemies not gloat when he slips. He confesses his sin, and asks God not to forsake him and to come quickly.
He says his hope is in God and asks to be saved from his sins. He accepts that God's discipline is behind his suffering and that people are as fragile as something a moth consumes, merely a vapor.
He speaks to himself, asking why he is downcast, and tells himself to hope in God, whom he will praise again.
He repeats the refrain to himself, telling his soul to hope in God, his Savior, and he will yet praise Him.
The refrain returns a third time: he tells himself to stop being downcast and to hope in God.
The psalm opens by declaring God a refuge and strength. Even if the earth gives way and the seas roar, the people will not fear.
Wise and foolish alike die and leave their wealth behind, and their graves become their homes. The psalmist contrasts this fate with his own hope that God will redeem him from Sheol and take him to himself.
The psalm says the enemies were overwhelmed by dread and God put them to shame. It ends with a wish that God's salvation would come from Zion and restore his people.
The psalmist encourages people to cast their burdens on the LORD, who sustains the righteous. He says God will bring down the violent and deceitful, and ends with his own trust.
The righteous will rejoice when they see the wicked judged. People will then recognize that the righteous are rewarded and that there is a God who judges the earth.