Job 33:9

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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

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

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

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

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.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

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

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

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

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. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

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

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

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

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

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

“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,

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

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

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

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?

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

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

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.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.