Job 15:17

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

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

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.