Job 32:1

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

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

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

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

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

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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

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

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.

“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),

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

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

“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.

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

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

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.

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

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

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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.

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

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

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

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

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

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

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

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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

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.

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

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

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

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

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

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

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.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

“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.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

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?

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

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.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.