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Okay, this isn’t exactly a verse in the bible, but I wanted to get your attention.

As I’ve been doing my word study on righteousness, thoughts naturally gravitate back to Evolution, Creationism, and Geocreationism. I’ve been reading this great book which I cannot find in my morning haze, but it advances the common argument that God’s testimony is in scripture and in science.  In other words, what we discover about the world, is knowledge that God wants us to have… and why wouldn’t He?  I mean, anything we learn about Him, whether it be how He saved us from our sins, or created the world in which live, is more knowledge about Him and His love for us.  Why wouldn’t I want …

Reading Elihu’s speech in Job 37, it struck me that it was immediately followed by Job 38, which contains one of the Creation stories in the Bible that is consistent with both the ancient pagan creation myths, and paradoxically modern science.  You can read more about The Creation Account in Job.

What struck me is the contrast between how Elihu attempts to challenge Job with Creation, versus how God does, and how that applies to today.
Job 37 

 14 “Listen to this, Job;
       stop and consider God’s wonders.

 15 Do you know how God controls the clouds
       and makes his lightning flash?

 16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,
       those wonders of him who is …

Job 37
 19 “Tell us what we should say to him;
       we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

 20 Should he be told that I want to speak?
       Would any man ask to be swallowed up?

 21 Now no one can look at the sun,
       bright as it is in the skies
       after the wind has swept them clean.

 22 Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;
       God comes in awesome majesty.

 23 The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
       in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.

 24 Therefore, men revere him,
       for does he not have regard for all the wise in …

Job 35
 1 Then Elihu said:

 2 “Do you think this is just?
       You say, ‘I will be cleared by God. [a] ‘

 3 Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, [b]
       and what do I gain by not sinning?’

 4 “I would like to reply to you
       and to your friends with you.

 5 Look up at the heavens and see;
       gaze at the clouds so high above you.

 6 If you sin, how does that affect him?
       If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

 7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
       or …

Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.

Wow.  I usually treat verses like this like a Christian cliche (how convicting).  Having been meditating on “righteousness” verses for almost a month now, this verse has a different impact now.  In need to “wear” righteousness.  And interestingly, just like Sheba paired up righteousness with justice, so does Job.  Hmmmm… to truly, internally, understand righteousness, I may need to do a word study on “justice” next.  Well, anyways…

In order to wear righteousness, it dawns on me that I have embrace every aspect that I’ve discovered so far. They are…

Believe the Lord and it will be credited to me as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6)
Obey …

1 Kings 10:9
Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king, to maintain justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 10:8-10 (in Context) 1 Kings 10 (Whole Chapter)

2 Chronicles 9:8
Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the LORD your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”
2 Chronicles 9:7-9 (in Context) 2 …

2 Samuel 23:1-7 (New International Version)
The Last Words of David
 1 These are the last words of David:
       “The oracle of David son of Jesse,
       the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High,
       the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
       Israel’s singer of songs [a] :
 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
       his word was on my tongue.

 3 The God of Israel spoke,
       the Rock of Israel said to me:
       ‘When one rules over men in righteousness,
       when he rules in the fear of God,

 4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
       on a cloudless morning,
       like the …

2 Samuel 23:1-7 (New International Version)
The Last Words of David
 1 These are the last words of David:
       “The oracle of David son of Jesse,
       the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High,
       the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
       Israel’s singer of songs [a] :
 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
       his word was on my tongue.

 3 The God of Israel spoke,
       the Rock of Israel said to me:
       ‘When one rules over men in righteousness,
       when he rules in the fear of God,

 4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
       on a cloudless morning,
       like the …

2 Samuel 23:1-7 (New International Version)
The Last Words of David
 1 These are the last words of David:
       “The oracle of David son of Jesse,
       the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High,
       the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
       Israel’s singer of songs [a] :
 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
       his word was on my tongue.

 3 The God of Israel spoke,
       the Rock of Israel said to me:
       ‘When one rules over men in righteousness,
       when he rules in the fear of God,

 4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
       on a cloudless morning,
       like the …

1 Samuel 26:22-24 (New International Version)
  

 22 “Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of your young men come over and get it. 23 The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. The LORD delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the LORD’s anointed. 24 As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all trouble.”
2 Samuel 22:21-26 (New International Version)
 

 21 “The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
       according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

 22 For I have kept the ways …