Job 27:12

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If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove? 26 Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind? 27 Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend. 28 Other Explanation“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face! 29 Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians! 5 If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom. 6 “Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips’ contentions. 7 Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him? 8 Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? 9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’ 29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts– 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?
  • Job 26:2-4 : 2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength! 3 How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight! 4 To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said,“This also is an enigma.”
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 Everyone Will Die So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated– no one knows what lies ahead. 2 Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows. 3 This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.

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