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Proverbs 3:26
for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
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Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
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Job 1:8-10
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.”Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said,“ Does Job fear God for nothing?Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
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2 Kings 20 3
“ Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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Job 27:5-6
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
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Job 23:11-12
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
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Job 16:17
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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Job 17:15
where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
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1 Peter 1 13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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Job 31:1-40
“ I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?“ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit( let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.“ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.“ If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?“ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it( no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.“ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold,‘ You are my confidence;’If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.“ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him( yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);if the men of my tent have not said,‘ Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’( the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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1 Peter 1 17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
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Job 29:12-17
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
