“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Of Joseph he said: May the Lord bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

Now what do you have at your disposal? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”

the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,

his son Tahath, his son Uriel, his son Uzziah, and his son Shaul.

son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah,

The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips. (Selah)

Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up:

I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile – like chasing the wind!

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?