Job 9:31

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

“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.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

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

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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

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.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

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

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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!”

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

“ ‘ “Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

“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.”

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,

“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

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?

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

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

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

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.

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

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

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

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

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.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

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

But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

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.”

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

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.