Job 17:10

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

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

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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

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

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

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.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.