Job 36:17

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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;

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

“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.

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,