Job 11:5

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

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?

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness