Job 35:16

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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?’ ”

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

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.”

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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

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

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

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

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.