Job 21:27

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

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.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

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

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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.

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

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

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

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

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

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.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.