Job 21:22

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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

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

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

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

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

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

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?’

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.