Job 33:10

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

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

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

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

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

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

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

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.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

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

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

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

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

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

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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

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

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

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!

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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.

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

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

“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!

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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

“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.

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.

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.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,