Job 32:12

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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

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,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

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

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

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

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

“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.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

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

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.

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

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

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

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.

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

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

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.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

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

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.