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Job 34:33

Job 34:33 is verse 33 of Job chapter 34, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

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King James Version

Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

World English Bible

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

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Job 34:31–35 · Berean Standard Bible

31 Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

32 Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

33 Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

34 Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:

35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 9:12

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Romans 11:35

“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

Job 34:11

For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.

Job 15:31

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Psalms 89:30

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Psalms 89:31

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Psalms 89:32

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

2 Thessalonians 1:6

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

Hebrews 11:26

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Psalms 135:6

The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

Matthew 20:12

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:13

But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Matthew 20:14

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Job 33:5

Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

Job 33:32

But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

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