Job 35:6

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

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

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

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.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

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

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

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?

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

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

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

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

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

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

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

“Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.