Job 32:2

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

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

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

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

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

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.

“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

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?

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

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.

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

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

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,