Job 13:22

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

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?

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

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.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

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

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

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

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

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

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

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

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

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

“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

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

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

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

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

“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.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

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.

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.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

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