Job 35:15

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

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

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

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

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

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

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.

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

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.

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!

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”

Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

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