Are God’s consolations not enough for you, even the words that deal gently with you?
Job 23:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. American Standard Version (1901) I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Common English Bible kept the commandments from his lips and not departed, valued the words from his mouth more than my food. Catholic Public Domain Version I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have not departed from the commandments of his lips: and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom. |
Are God’s consolations not enough for you, even the words that deal gently with you?
Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his sayings in your heart.
It would still bring me comfort, and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart, for I bear your name, Lord God of Armies.
The Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?
that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,’ Jesus told them.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ‘If you continue in my word, , you really are my disciples.
strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, ‘It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.’
Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, , so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.