Job 34:23

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

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  • Ps 119:137 : 137 צ(Tsade) You are just, O LORD, and your judgments are fair.
  • Dan 9:7-9 : 7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you. 8 O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you. 9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
  • Isa 42:3 : 3 A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
  • Ezra 9:13 : 13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
  • Job 9:32-33 : 32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment. 33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,
  • Job 11:6 : 6 and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom– for true wisdom has two sides– so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.
  • Job 11:11 : 11 For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?
  • Job 16:21 : 21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 34:10-12 : 10 God is Not Unjust“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil. 11 For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him. 12 Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

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    9For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

    10God is Not Unjust“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

    11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

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

    13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

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

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    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

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

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    4Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

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

    33Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

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    33But the LORD does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.

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    23As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

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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.

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

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    24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

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    33For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people.

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    26He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

    27That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

    28He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

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

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    13So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

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    20“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

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    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

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

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    5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

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

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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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    5For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

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    6He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

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    23Further Sayings of the Wise These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

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

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    23If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

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    19who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

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    16None of the sins he has committed will be counted against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

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    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.