TOPICAL BIBLE
Temptation
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Job 1:17While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”Job 1:18While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,Job 1:19and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”Job 1:20Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh.”Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.Job 2:3Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”Job 2:4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.Job 2:5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”Job 2:6Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”Job 2:7So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.Job 2:8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?Job 31:5“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceitJob 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);Job 31:7if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,Job 31:8then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.Job 31:9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,Job 31:10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.Job 31:11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;Job 31:14What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?Job 31:15Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Job 31:17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of itJob 31:19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;Job 31:20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,Job 31:22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.Job 31:24“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’Job 31:25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;Job 31:26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,Job 31:27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,Job 31:28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.Job 31:29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;Job 31:30(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);Job 31:31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’Job 31:32(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,Job 31:34because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—Job 31:38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;Job 31:39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,Job 31:40let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.Psalm 17:4As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.Psalm 66:10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.Psalm 66:11You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.Psalm 66:12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.Psalm 66:13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,Psalm 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.Psalm 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Psalm 73:4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.Psalm 73:5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.Psalm 73:6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.Psalm 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.Psalm 73:8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.Psalm 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.