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that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”