Job 7:20

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

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

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

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

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

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

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

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

Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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.

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

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?