4 Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Job 22:4
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Job 13:8–10
8 Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense? 9 Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man? 10 Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
Job 35:1–3
1 And Elihu went on to say: 2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Job 8:2–4
2 “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind. 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4 When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
2 Baruch 67:3–5
3 Dost thou think that in these things the Most High rejoices, Or that His name is glorified? (2BA) 4 [But how will it serve towards His righteous judgement?] (2BA) 5 Yet after these things shall the dispersed among the Gentiles be taken hold of by tribulation, And in shame shal… (2BA)
Job 40:7–9
7 “Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. 8 Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself? 9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Job 33:12–14
12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? 14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
Job 15:12–14
12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13 as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 14:2–4
2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
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