fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, “Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?”

ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good and his loyal love endures.

The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, including the faithful acts he did in obedience to what is written in the law of the Lord

“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

Realize that the Lord shows the godly special favor; the Lord responds when I cry out to him.