Job 22:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:3 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
  • Isa 3:14-15 : 14 The LORD comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says,“It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor. 15 Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies has spoken.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
  • Job 9:19 : 19 If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
  • Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
  • Job 19:29 : 29 Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”
  • Job 23:6-7 : 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me. 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 34:23 : 23 For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 76:6 : 6 At the sound of your battle cry, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse“fell asleep.”
  • Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.
  • Ps 130:3-4 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you? 4 But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

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    3Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

  • Job 40:8-9
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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

    9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • Job 13:7-11
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    7Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

    8Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

    9Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

    10He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality!

    11Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?

  • Job 14:3
    77%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 22:5
    77%

    5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

  • Job 34:23
    76%

    23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

  • Job 40:2
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    2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

  • Job 4:6
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    6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

  • Job 15:4
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    4But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

  • Job 23:6-7
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    6Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 33:13
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    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

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    3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

  • Job 21:22
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    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

  • Job 41:3-4
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    3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?

    4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

  • Job 35:6-7
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    73%

    6If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

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

  • Job 21:31
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    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

  • Job 4:17
    73%

    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Ps 143:2
    72%

    2Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

  • Job 9:32
    72%

    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

  • Job 34:17
    72%

    17Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely Righteous One,

  • Ps 130:4
    72%

    4But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

  • Job 34:12
    72%

    12Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

  • Job 10:2-4
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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

    3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

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    13But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

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    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

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    24Correct us, LORD, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

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    14How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

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    2 verses
    72%

    9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

    10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

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    71%

    23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

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    3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

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    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

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    71%

    24Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

  • Job 31:14
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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    4I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.