Job 40:2

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

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?”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

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

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

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.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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.”

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

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.

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?”

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

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

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

“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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

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.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

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

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

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.

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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?”

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

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

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

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