Family Verses

While he {was} yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters {were} eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

{There} the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}

Thou shalt come to {thy} grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. {cometh in: Heb. ascendeth}

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, {and} wherein the snow is hid:

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}