Job 34:3–9

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.

²As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

⁹I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

¹⁷Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

¹SO these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

⁷Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

⁴For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁷For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

¹³His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

¹⁶How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

¹⁹And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

¹⁷For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

¹BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

³³Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

²⁰He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

⁴I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

¹⁵My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

¹²Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

¹³Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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

¹⁰But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

¹⁵Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

¹⁴¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

¹⁴Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

²²This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

²³If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

¹⁴Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

⁴Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

¹⁷Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?