Job 40:7

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

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

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

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,

Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

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

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

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

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

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

“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.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.