Job 9:20

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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.”

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

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

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

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

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

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.

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.”

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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.