So Job arose and tore his clothes, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the ground and worshipped,

and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

So the devil went out from the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head.

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, [ 2:9A] Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? [ 2:9B] For behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; [ 2:9C] and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, [ 2:9D] and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors, and my pangs which now beset me: [ 2:9E] but curse the Lord, and die.

He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,

In which you greatly rejoice, [though for] a little while now, if need be, you have been distressed by various trials,

A glad heart promotes health, but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

You scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.

Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

renewing against me my torture: and You have dealt with me in great anger, and You have brought trials upon me.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to You? Or shall it declare Your truth?

The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord has become my helper.

Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

For Your weapons are fixed in me, and You have pressed Your hand heavily upon me.

For my transgressions have gone over my head; they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; [He is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner; for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause.

Why, O Lord, do You reject my prayer, [and] turn Your face away from me?

Your wrath has passed over me; and Your terrors have greatly disquieted me.

Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be greatly amazed, and deeply depressed.

Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and watch."

so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest somehow such a person be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.