You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

For this reason the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly.

Certainly you reward the godly, Lord. Like a shield you protect them in your good favor.

May lying lips be silenced – lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

The godly will rejoice in the Lord and take shelter in him. All the morally upright will boast.

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. The Lord’s right hand conquers,

Certainly the godly will give thanks to your name; the morally upright will live in your presence.

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.