Job 22:14

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: