²⁷ And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,^(A)

⁴ But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,^(A)

²⁰ But now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will become mute, unable to speak, until the day these things occur.”^(A)

¹³ He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.^(A)

⁷ At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, ⁸ but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.^{(A) 9} And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,^{(B) 10} but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it.^(C)

²¹ When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.^(A)

Hezekiah’s Illness

38 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.”^(A)

Job: My Suffering Is without End