Job 34:33

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

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

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

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

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

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

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

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.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

“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.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

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.

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

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

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

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.

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.

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?’

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

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.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?’

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

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 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.