Job 26:2

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

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.

In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” He said, “Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand.”

But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

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.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

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

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

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

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

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

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers 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?”

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

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

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

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

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

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.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.