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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