Job 5:27

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

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.

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

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

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

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

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

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

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

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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.

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