Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.'

You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?"By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

"Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, 'How have we spoken against you?'

And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

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Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"

"The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

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These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?

"And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

General references

Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

"Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just.