Job 22:5

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

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

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—

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.

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

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

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

“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?

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

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

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.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

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

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

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

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

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.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

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

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

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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