Job 31:37

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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.

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

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

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

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

“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,

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

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

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

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

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

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

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

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

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

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

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

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

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.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

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

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

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.

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

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.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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

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

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

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

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.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.