Job 4:17

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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.

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.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

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.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

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.”

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

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

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.

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

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

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

“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.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

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

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.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

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

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

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

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

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

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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?”

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

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

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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

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

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

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

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?

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”