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Proverbs 3:26
for the LORD will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.
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Job 1:8-10
So the LORD said to Satan,“ Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”Then Satan answered the LORD,“ Is it for nothing that Job fears God?Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
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2 Kings 20 3
“ Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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Job 27:5-6
I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
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Job 23:11-12
My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
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Job 13:15
Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
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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? And my hope, who sees it?
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1 Peter 1 13
Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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Job 31:1-40
“ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit–let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.“ If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.“ If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold,‘ You are my security!’if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–if the members of my household have never said,‘ If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’–But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler–if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors–“ If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.“ If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.
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1 Peter 1 17
And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
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Job 29:12-17
for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
