Job 36:3

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

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

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

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.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!