And burned the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. His wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.

For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right;

Do you think this to be right, you that say, I am more just than God?

Will you also set aside My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will cause me to know.

You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against You?

And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)

No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way?

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

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Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself is judge. Selah.

Jehovah is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works.

Righteous are You, O Jehovah, that I might contend with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal treacherously?

The just Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He fails not; but the perverse knows no shame.

But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?

And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?

General references

Yet says the house of Israel: The way of Jehovah is not fair. O house of Israel, are not My ways fair? Are not your ways unfair?

Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair. But as for them, their way is not fair.