Job 40:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:2 : 2 and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;
  • Job 34:5-6 : 5 For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, 6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
  • Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
  • Job 27:2-6 : 2 God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter. 3 For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils. 4 My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit. 5 Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me. 6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
  • Job 35:2-3 : 2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness `is' more than God's?' 3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

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