Job 34:5
Hebrew Text— Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
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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.”
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
“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.
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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?”
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
“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.
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
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.
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,
You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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.
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
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.
I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
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.
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
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.’
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”