Verse 3

Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:15 : 15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
  • Ps 138:8 : 8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Jer 12:1-3 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Lam 3:2-9 : 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. 3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. 5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. 7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy. 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. 9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked. 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. 12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. 18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
  • Job 8:20 : 20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 9:24 : 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?
  • Job 21:16 : 16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  • Job 22:18 : 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  • Job 34:5-7 : 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.' 7 What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
  • Job 34:18-19 : 18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!' 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Job 36:7-9 : 7 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted. 8 If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions, 9 Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
  • Job 36:17-18 : 17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you. 18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.