Job 22:4
Hebrew Text— Job 22:4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
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We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
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?”
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
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.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
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.
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”
At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
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?’
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.