Job 13:18

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

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

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one 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.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.