Job 34:12
Hebrew Text— Job 34:12Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
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They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
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.
He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.