Job 34:1–4

²⁰Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

¹⁵I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

¹¹Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

¹⁵But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

²Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

³⁰Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

²¹Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

²Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

⁴If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

⁵I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

¹¹But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

¹²For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

¹³And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

¹⁴But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

²And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

³And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

⁴But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

⁵And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

³⁶My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

²⁴Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

³⁰And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

⁷Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.