Verse 3

Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:15 : 15 Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.
  • Ps 138:8 : 8 The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lorde, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands.
  • Jer 12:1-3 : 1 O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse? 2 Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines. 3 But thou, Lord, knowest me: thou hast seene me, and tried mine heart towarde thee: pull them out like sheepe for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Lam 3:2-9 : 2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light. 3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour. 6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer. 7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy. 8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths. 10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places. 11 He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow. 13 Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines. 14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes. 17 Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie, 18 And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord,
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their soules to him in well doing, as vnto a faithfull Creator.
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
  • Job 9:22 : 22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?
  • Job 21:16 : 16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
  • Job 22:18 : 18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
  • Job 34:5-7 : 5 For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken away my iudgement. 6 Should I lye in my right? my wound of the arrowe is grieuous without my sinne. 7 What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
  • Job 34:18-19 : 18 Wilt thou say vnto a King, Thou art wicked? or to princes, Ye are vngodly? 19 How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.
  • Job 36:7-9 : 7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with Kings in ye throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted. 8 And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction, 9 Then will he shewe them their worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude.
  • Job 36:17-18 : 17 But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things. 18 For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 (39:35) Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 (40:3) Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.