Job 9:21

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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.”

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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.

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.

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

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.”

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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 exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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.”

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

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

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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

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

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

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

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

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

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

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

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

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

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

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.