Job 14:3

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

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?”

The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.

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

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

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

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

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

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

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?

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

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

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

that no flesh should boast before God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

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

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.