Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”
This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah