Job 34:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

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  • Ps 119:137 : 137 <TZADE> O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.
  • Dan 9:7-9 : 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you. 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. 9 With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
  • Isa 42:3 : 3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
  • Ezra 9:13 : 13 And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;
  • Job 9:32-33 : 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge. 33 There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
  • Job 11:11 : 11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
  • Job 34:10-12 : 10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong. 11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways. 12 Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

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  • Job 34:9-13
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    9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

    10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

    11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

    12 Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

    13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • 4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

  • Job 9:32-33
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    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

    33 There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

  • 33 The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

  • Job 37:23-24
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    23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

    24 For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

  • Job 23:6-7
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    6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

  • Job 34:21-22
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    21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

    22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • 33 For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

  • Job 33:26-28
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    26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

    27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

    28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 13 Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

  • 20 Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

  • 22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • 5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • 22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

  • 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

  • 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

  • 6 His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

  • 23 These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

  • 17 How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

  • 23 If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

  • 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

  • 16 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

  • 6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!

  • 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

  • 23 If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

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    8 And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

  • 6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

  • 7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

  • 1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

  • 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.