Quotes About Support

and his followers Gabbai and Sallai—928 men.

Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.

Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Estherís welfare and what was happening to her.

Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the kingís eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the kingís gate,

Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,

When Estherís words were relayed to Mordecai,

And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the kingís administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

Now when Jobís three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?