Job 10:8

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.