Job 34:23

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

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?”

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

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?

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

“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.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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

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

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

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

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

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.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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.

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

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.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

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

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

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

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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?”