Job 22:4–5

³And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

²And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

¹⁴The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

²¹O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

²⁹Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

²³For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

¹²Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

¹⁹If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

³²For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

³If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

⁴But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

⁶At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

⁵For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

⁶Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

¹⁴If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

⁶And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

³¹Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

³²It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

³³He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

³⁴For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

³Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

⁷Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

⁸Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

⁹By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

¹²Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.