Job 35:2

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Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter --

For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

"Yet your people say, 'The behavior of the Lord is not right,' when it is their behavior that is not right.