Job 33:5

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

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

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

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

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”

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?

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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

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?’

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

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

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

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.

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

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

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

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

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

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

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.

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.

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

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

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

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

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

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

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

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.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

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?’

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.

“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?

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

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.

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

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment 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?”

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.