walking upright

²He who walks without blemish and who works justice.

¹²For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.

¹In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.

⁷He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:

⁹He who walks in simplicity walks in confidence. But he who corrupts his ways shall be discovered.

⁶And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to your servant David, my father, because he walked in your sight in truth and justice, and with an upright heart before you. And you have kept your great mercy for him, and you have given him a son sitting upon his throne, just as it is this day.

⁶Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

¹⁸Whoever walks simply shall be saved. Whoever is perverse in his steps will fall all at once.

¹There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.

⁸I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

¹And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. ²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, ⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them. ⁶For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires,

²Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.

⁷The house of Jacob says, “Has the Spirit of the Lord been weakened, or are such things his thoughts?” Are not my words good for him who walks uprightly?

⁸And the Lord said to him, “Have you not considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.”

¹⁵The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

⁴Also, if you will walk before me, just as your father walked, in simplicity of heart and in equity, and you do all that I have instructed to you, and you keep my laws and my judgments,

⁷The just who walks in his simplicity shall leave behind him blessed sons.

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Judge me, Lord, for I have been walking in my innocence, and by hoping in the Lord, I will not be weakened.

¹And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

¹There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil. ²And there had been born to him seven sons and three daughters. ³And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, along with five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred she-donkeys, and also a very large family. And this man was great among all the people of the east. ⁴And his sons went and made a feast by houses, each one on his day. And sending, they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵And when the days of their feasting had been completed, Job sent to them and sanctified them, and, getting up at dawn, he offered holocausts for each one. For he said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and have not praised God in their hearts.” So Job did all the days. ⁶But on a certain day, when the sons of God came to attend in the presence of the Lord, Satan also arrived among them.