Job 33:32

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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

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.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

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

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

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

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

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

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

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

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

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

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.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

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?”

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.