Job 9:29

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Job 9:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

28 I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

30 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

31 then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

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Job 9:22

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 10:7

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Job 10:14

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Job 10:16

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Job 10:17

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Job 21:16

Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8

while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Job 22:11

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 22:13

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Job 22:15

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 22:18

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 22:19

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

Job 22:20

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

Job 22:21

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Job 22:26

Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Job 22:30

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

Psalms 73:13

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’