Job 34:30

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

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“When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
When He hides His face [withdrawing His favor and help], who then can behold Him [and make supplication to Him],
Whether it be a nation or a man by himself?—
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So that godless men would not rule
Nor be snares for the people. ³¹
“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured my chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Job

No

Sin

1 Kings 12:28-30

So the king took counsel [and followed bad advice] and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “It is too much for you to go [all the way] up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen; and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons (descendants) of Israel.

Job 34:21

“For God’s eyes are on the ways of a man,
And He sees all his steps.

Psalm 12:8

The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on every side,
As vileness is exalted and baseness is prized among the sons of men.

Proverbs 29:2-12

When the righteous are in authority and become great, the people rejoice;
But when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed; he is broken and crushed by [divine] judgment,
Because he was determined to follow man’s command (vanities, filth, secular precepts).

Hosea 13:11

I gave you a king in My anger,
And I took him away in My wrath [as punishment].

Micah 6:16

“For [you have kept] the statutes of Omri [the idolatrous king],
And all the works of the [wicked] house (dynasty) of Ahab;
And you walk in their counsels and policies.
Therefore, I shall hand you over for destruction and horror
And your [city’s] inhabitants for ridicule,
And you shall bear the rebuke and scorn of My people.”

2 Thessalonians 2:4-11

who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God.

Revelation 13:3-4

I saw one of his heads which seemed to have a fatal wound, but his fatal wound was healed; and the entire earth followed after the beast in amazement.

Revelation 13:11-14

Then I saw another beast rising up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon.