Job 35:2
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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Job 35:2
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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Job 35:3
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Job 40:8
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Job 34:5
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
Job 34:8
who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
Job 4:17
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 32:2
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.
Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 10:3
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?
Job 10:15
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.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
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Job 34:17
Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Job 34:18
who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
Job 34:19
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.
Genesis 18:25
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?”
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 34:10
“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.
Job 34:11
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job 34:12
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
Psalms 145:17
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Ezekiel 18:25
“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?
Romans 2:5
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,
Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
Romans 3:6
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
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Job 35:1
Moreover Elihu answered,
Job 33:8
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Job 33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 33:10
Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
Job 33:12
“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
Job 35:4
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
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Job 27:2
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
Job 27:3
(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Job 27:4
surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
Job 27:5
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 34:6
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
Job 9:17
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 19:6
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
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Romans 9:20
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?”
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Deuteronomy 9:4
Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the motives.
Proverbs 20:6
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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