Job 32:3

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

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

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

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

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

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

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

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

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

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

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.”

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

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

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

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

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

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

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

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

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

“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?”

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

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

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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

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

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

If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

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

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

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

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.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

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

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

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

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

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.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

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