Job 35:2

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

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  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you, on the Day of Judgment, people will give an account for every idle word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?'
  • 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 16:17 : 17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.
  • Job 19:6-7 : 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 27:2-6 : 2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, 3 as long as my breath remains in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, 4 my lips will not utter injustice, and my tongue will not speak deceit. 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.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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    1Then Elihu answered and said:

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    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

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

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    5For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'

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

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man.

    13Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.

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    2Can a man benefit God? Even a wise man benefits only himself.

    3Is it a delight to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or does He gain anything if your ways are blameless?

    4Is it because of your reverence that He rebukes you and brings you into judgment?

    5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

  • Job 35:6-8
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    6If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

    7If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

    8Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only a child of humanity.

  • Job 4:17
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    17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet 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.'

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

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

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    23Who has appointed His path for Him, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

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    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

  • Job 10:6
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    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

  • Job 42:7
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    7After 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.'

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    1Then Elihu answered and said:

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    2I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

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  • Job 32:1-2
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    1So these three men stopped answering Job because he considered himself righteous in his own eyes.

    2Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, from the family of Ram, became very angry. His anger burned against Job for justifying himself rather than God.

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

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    6Isn't your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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    21These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought I was like you. But I will rebuke you and lay the case before your eyes.

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

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

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    2Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

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

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    1You 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?

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

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

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