Job 23:4

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.

Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

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

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.