Job 35:2

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“Do you think this to be just: when you say,‘My right before God.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
  • Job 9:17 : 17 he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
  • Job 16:17 : 17 although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
  • Job 19:6-7 : 6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. 7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
  • Job 27:2-6 : 2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter– 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils, 4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit. 5 I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity! 6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

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

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