Job 40:5

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

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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

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

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

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.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

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?’ ”

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

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

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

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

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

“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’?

You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

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.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

that no flesh should boast before God.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

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.”

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the 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?”

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.