Job 34:14

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

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.

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

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

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.”

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

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

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

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

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.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

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

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

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.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

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

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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.”

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

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

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.