Job 13:3

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!

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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

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

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

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

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

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

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.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

“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.

Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

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

A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,” ’ says Yahweh.”

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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.

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.

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

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.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

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?

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

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

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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

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.

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.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

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.

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

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

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!

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?’

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.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

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.

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?”

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”