Job 24:25

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies 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.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

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

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

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

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

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

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

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

“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?”

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

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

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

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

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.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

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?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

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

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

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.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”