Job 9:28

“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

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

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 enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

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.”

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.

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

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

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

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.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

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

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

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

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

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

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

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

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

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

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

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

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

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

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;

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord 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.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

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.”

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

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

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

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

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

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

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

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

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

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

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,