Are the consolations of God too small for you or the word that deals gently with you?
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured his words in my bosom.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
This would be my consolation; I would even exult in unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah
But God, who consoles the downcast, consoled us by the arrival of Titus,