Job 42:7

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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.

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

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.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

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.”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

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

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

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

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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

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

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

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

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?

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Then Job answered,

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

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.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

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.

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

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

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against 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.