Job 20:3

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

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

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

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?”

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

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

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

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

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

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

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

“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!

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

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

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

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

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

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

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

But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

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

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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?

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

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.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

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

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;