Job 8:20

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’ ”

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

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.”

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

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

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.

“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

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?

The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.