Job 34:5

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For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'

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  • Job 27:2 : 2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
  • Job 33:9 : 9 'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'
  • Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
  • Job 32:1 : 1 So these three men stopped answering Job because he considered himself righteous in his own eyes.
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.
  • Job 11:4 : 4 For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'
  • Job 16:17 : 17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

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  • 6 Though I am innocent, I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I have committed no offense.

  • 2 Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?

  • 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • Job 13:18-19
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    18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated.

    19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 And Job continued speaking his discourse, saying:

    2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

  • 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 4 Let us choose what is right for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what is good.

  • 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • Job 9:1-2
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    1 Then Job answered and said:

    2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

    20 Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

  • 35 Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

  • Job 19:4-7
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    4 Even if I have gone astray, my error remains with me.

    5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

    6 know then that God has wronged me and surrounded me with His net.

    7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5 Far be it from me to justify you. Until my dying breath, I will not set aside my integrity.

    6 I will hold on to my righteousness and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

  • 25 The LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

  • 7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'

  • 29 Relent, let there be no injustice; yes, relent, my righteousness still stands.

  • 1 So these three men stopped answering Job because he considered himself righteous in his own eyes.

  • 24 I was blameless before Him and kept myself from my iniquity.

  • 1 Then Job responded and said:

  • 9 'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

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    8 Let the assembly of the nations gather around You; take Your seat on high above them.

  • 6 let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.

  • 24 Vindicate me according to Your righteousness, Lord my God, and do not let them rejoice over me.

  • 4 For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty distort what is right?

  • 35 Job speaks without knowledge, and his words lack insight.

  • 28 then this too would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God above.

  • 22 In all of this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

  • 17 But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 15 Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.

  • 31 Suppose someone says to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend anymore.'

  • 32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • 3 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

  • 23 For He does not need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease?

  • 12 Truly, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

  • 10 Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, for You test hearts and minds, O righteous God.

  • 59 You have seen my wrong, O LORD; judge my case.

  • 1 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 3 I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.