Job 33:12

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

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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

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?”

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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?

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

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?’

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

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.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

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

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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

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.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

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

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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?

“Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

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

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before 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?

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