Lexicon :: Strong's G2756 - kenos

“If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,[fn] and he issued his verdict last night.”

Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.

“And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

“Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words.”

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

“You may redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

“then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you ​— ​wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

“and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

“When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.

“For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each of the men a ram’s horn in one hand and an empty pitcher with a torch inside it in the other hand.

So they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith.[fn] Abimelech used it to hire worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.

“I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has opposed[fn] me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ”

She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, because he said,[fn] ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ”

They replied, “If you send the ark of Israel’s God away, do not send it without an offering. Send back a guilt offering to him, and you will be healed. Then the reason his hand hasn’t been removed from you will be revealed.”[fn]

Jonathan’s bow never retreated,

Saul’s sword never returned unstained,[fn]

from the blood of the slain,

from the flesh[fn] of the mighty.

Then he said, “Go out and borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.

I also shook the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake from his house and property everyone who doesn’t keep this promise. May he be shaken out and have nothing! ”

The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ”

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass

or an ox low over its fodder?

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,

and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;

they come to an end without hope.

I give up! I will not live forever.

Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.[fn]

He batters me with a whirlwind

and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,

for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;

their womb prepares deception.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;

he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?

Your answers are deceptive.

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,

stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

You sent widows away empty-handed,

and the strength of the fatherless was[fn] crushed.

All of you have seen this for yourselves,

why do you keep up this empty talk?

because I greatly feared the crowds

and because the contempt of the clans terrified me,

so I grew silent and would not go outside?

His flesh wastes away to nothing,[fn]

and his unseen bones stick out.

They die suddenly in the middle of the night;

people shudder, then pass away.

Even the mighty are removed without effort.

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,

with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Why do the nations rage

and the peoples plot in vain?

if I have done harm to one at peace with me

or have plundered[fn] my adversary without cause,

No one who waits for you

will be disgraced;

those who act treacherously without cause

will be disgraced.

I[fn] hate those who are devoted to worthless idols,

but I trust in the LORD.

For he has satisfied the thirsty

and filled the hungry with good things.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?

Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?

Who has wounds for no reason?

Who has red eyes?

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,

then wakes and is still hungry;

and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,

then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.

So it will be for all the many nations

who go to battle against Mount Zion.

Egypt’s help is completely worthless;

therefore, I call her:

Rahab Who Just Sits.

For a fool speaks foolishness

and his mind plots iniquity.

He lives in a godless way

and speaks falsely about the LORD.

He leaves the hungry empty

and deprives the thirsty of drink.

For this is what the LORD says —

the Creator of the heavens,

the God who formed the earth and made it,

the one who established it

(he did not create it to be a wasteland,

but formed it to be inhabited) —

he says, “I am the LORD,

and there is no other.

No one makes claims justly;

no one pleads honestly.

They trust in empty and worthless words;

they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

“They will not labor without success

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD

along with their descendants.