Leadership Verses
Servant leadership as modeled by Christ — wisdom for those called to lead.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, {and} who {is} he?
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them {again}. {straiteneth: Heb. leadeth in}
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Who {is} he {that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!