Job 32:3

⁶If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

⁵Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities. ⁶For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. ⁹You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. ¹⁰Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you, ¹¹or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. ¹²“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are! ¹³You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’ ¹⁵Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, ¹⁶who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, ¹⁷who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’ ¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, ²⁰saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’ ²¹“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you. ²²Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. ²³If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. ²⁴Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. ²⁵The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you. ²⁶For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God. ²⁷You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows. ²⁸You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways. ²⁹When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person. ³⁰He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

²⁵If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

²“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! ³How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

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

³⁴For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

²“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. ³Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? ⁴How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? ⁵Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; ⁶How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”

⁵For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

¹³Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.