Category: Scripture

Job 36:17, on justice

… you are obsessed with whether the godless will be judged.

Don’t worry, judgment and justice will be upheld.

New Living Translation

Isaiah 1:12-13, on meaningless ceremony

When you came to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?

… I want no more of your pious meetings.

— New Living Translation

1 Kings 18:17-18, on identifying actual troublemakers

When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed, “So, is it really you, you troublemaker of Israel?”

“I have made no trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “You and your family are the troublemakers, for you have refused to obey the commands of the Lord ….”

New Living Translation

Job 38:4, on questioning proven authority

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell me, if you know so much.

New Living Translation

Proverbs 3:5, on trust

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.

— New Living Translation

Proverbs 9:7-8, on answering verbal attacks

Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return.

Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.

So don’t bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you.

New Living Translation

Job 33:14, on hearing God

For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.

New Living Translation