Job 31:35

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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

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?

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

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

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

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

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

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

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

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

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

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

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

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.

Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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

When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

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

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

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

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.