⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and shuns evil, But the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.

²⁸ To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

⁴¹ But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

²¹ subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

² Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, Because he delights in loving kindness.

¹⁹ He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁰ You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, As you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

²⁸ Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

²⁷ The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, Turning people from the snares of death.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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.

² There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

³ His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

⁴ His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

⁵ It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.

⁶ Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

⁷ Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

⁸ Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

⁹ Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹¹ Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'