Job 34:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:32 : 32 If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.
  • Ps 135:6 : 6 He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths.
  • Prov 11:31 : 31 If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
  • Matt 20:12-15 : 12 saying,‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’ 13 And the landowner replied to one of them,‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you. 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • 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?”
  • Rom 11:35 : 35 Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?
  • 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
  • Heb 2:2 : 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,
  • Heb 11:26 : 26 He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
  • Job 34:11 : 11 For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.
  • Job 41:11 : 11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
  • Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations, 31 if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments, 32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.
  • Job 9:12 : 12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’
  • Job 15:31 : 31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.
  • Job 18:4 : 4 You 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?
  • Job 33:5 : 5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

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