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

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

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    12Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

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    21For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

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

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