Job 8:3
Hebrew Text— Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
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.
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
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.”
“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.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
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.”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
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?”
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
“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.
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
“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.
Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
For there is no partiality with God.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
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!
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
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?
I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
‘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?
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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.
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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.”
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”
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.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of 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.
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.