The Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old,(A) the Lord appeared to him(B) and said, “I am God Almighty[a];(C) walk before me faithfully and be blameless.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:1 Hebrew El-Shaddai

17 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

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13 You must be blameless(A) before the Lord your God.(B)

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13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

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24 I have been blameless(A) before him
    and have kept myself from sin.

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24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

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Prologue

In the land of Uz(A) there lived a man whose name was Job.(B) This man was blameless(C) and upright;(D) he feared God(E) and shunned evil.(F)

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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

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Should not your piety be your confidence(A)
    and your blameless(B) ways your hope?

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Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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21 “Although I am blameless,(A)
    I have no concern for myself;(B)
    I despise my own life.(C)

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21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

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“I have become a laughingstock(A) to my friends,(B)
    though I called on God and he answered(C)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(D)

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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

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let God weigh me(A) in honest scales(B)
    and he will know that I am blameless(C)

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Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

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The one whose walk is blameless,(A)
    who does what is righteous,
    who speaks the truth(B) from their heart;

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He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

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23 I have been blameless(A) before him
    and have kept myself from sin.

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23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

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13 Keep your servant also from willful sins;(A)
    may they not rule over me.(B)
Then I will be blameless,(C)
    innocent of great transgression.

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13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

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37 Consider the blameless,(A) observe the upright;(B)
    a future awaits those who seek peace.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:37 Or upright; / those who seek peace will have posterity

37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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He holds success in store for the upright,
    he is a shield(A) to those whose walk is blameless,(B)

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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

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